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Let's keep youth centres for young people

    Opinion
  • Friday, February 8, 2008
    • | CYP Now
I have just completed the second leg of my Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship looking at larger youth centres in various cities in the US. Many of these offer facilities beyond our wildest dreams in the UK.

Issues matter over personalities

    Opinion
  • Friday, February 8, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Voting for Southend's next youth mayor is taking place later this month. This isn't a new thing: young people elected their first youth mayor more than 50 years ago. And the way the election takes place hasn't changed much since then.

The amoral panic surrounding juvenile crime

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The conviction of three young people in mid-January for the awful murder of Garry Newlove was followed by a moving and poignant plea from his widow Helen for society to reclaim the streets from violent and yobbish youth.

Why a bottle of 'Old Fart' has untold value

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 22, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The photograph in November's issue of Youth Work Now of young women in Hull deliberating on the allocation of the Youth Opportunity Fund took me back to a time over 50 years ago.

The beautiful game has started to turn ugly

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
In one of the first discussions on youthful antisocial behaviour during the 1990s, I noted in a speech that most of the lads' magazines tended to be preoccupied with half-naked women and bad-boy footballers.

Free travel opens doors for young people

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
As we begin the year, the minds of both policymakers and practitioners will turn to the delivery of new reforms. This is especially the case with the Children's Plan and, for those in the youth sector, the 10-year Aiming High strategy.

Editorial: Let's make staff a New Year priority

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 10, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The publication of the Children's Plan before Christmas and the pledge of an additional 160m for youth facilities over the next two years was a fitting way to round off last year (see page 5).

From The Frontline - Drugs don't always work for ADHD sufferers

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 10, 2008
    • | CYP Now
I've worked with many young people with behavioural problems and hyperactive disorders since I started out in youth work eight years ago. I've lost count of the number of conversations I've had with concerned families about how their child is "out of control" or "needs sorting out" because they are unable to cope with the erratic behaviour.

Viewpoint - The internet is just one way to reach them

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 10, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Can you remember life before the internet? For today's 16-year-olds, born in 1992, there has never been a time when it didn't exist. What's more, they have grown up with a mobile phone - and there has always been multi-channel television.

Conquer your technology demons

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 10, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Happy New Year. I'm sure a few of you will be glad to be back at work just to get away from that wireless broadband router that won't connect to the internet.

Troubled young need experienced workers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 8, 2008
    • | CYP Now
For many years now, I have advocated the need for a special brand of "advanced skill practitioners" to deal with our most challenging and troubled young people.

Let's talk about sex in a more open way

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 8, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Experimenting with relationships is an inevitable part of growing up. For some, sex becomes a part of this, prompting concerns about the consequences of sexually active young people.

Christmas brings out the child in all of us

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2007
    • | CYP Now
For many years our last evening at the youth club before shutting down for Christmas, was a childish seasonal celebration. Somehow we always got enough money together to buy lots of sickly cakes, some paper tablecloths, a few streamers and party hats.

Editorial: Commercialism is damaging childhood

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2007
    • | CYP Now
With the festive season upon us, and the avalanche of consumerism it brings, it is timely that the government's 10-year Children's Plan should include an inquiry into the impact of commercialisation on children's wellbeing.

The unpalatable truth of obesity

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 10, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Let me introduce you to the Quality Street Six. They're a small group of young people I work with each week. And like many youth groups, eating and drinking together has become a big part of our meetings.

Young people should be positively engaged

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2007
    • | CYP Now
The government's new Youth Taskforce aims to deliver on the 10-year strategy Aiming High for Young People, which focuses on the expansion of positive activities, creating new places to go and developing local services to support young people.

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