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Who needs an Institute for Youth Work anyway?

Friday, May 13, 2011

| CYP Now

The wheel turns. An Institute for Youth Work? An idea to provide the youth workforce with a strong voice whose time has come, or an idea whose time has come and gone?

Youth unemployment: the solutions exist

Opinion

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| CYP Now

We have seen the headlines screaming at us that one in five young people are jobless, that youth unemployment has hit a "record high" and that the problem is now a "national crisis".

Big society requires small projects to grow

Opinion

Friday, April 15, 2011

| CYP Now

I became rather sad when I saw the small news clip in CYP Now at the end of March prefaced by the heading "big society inspiration to close".

ECM might be dead in name but its substance endures

Opinion

Monday, March 21, 2011

| CYP Now

The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda has been something of a taboo for the past 10 months.

The evidence is there, but it is difficult to see

Opinion

Monday, March 21, 2011

| CYP Now

There was once a rather intimidating youth service inspector whose opening question was invariably: "What do you achieve?" Some colleagues, in anticipation of his visit and this question, constructed elaborate unit plans setting out their intended "outcomes", while others blagged an answer on the spot.

Leadership: Big society offers the chance to end our addiction to government funds

Opinion

Monday, March 7, 2011

| CYP Now

During a cholera epidemic in London in 1866, a little boy led a young Irish doctor to a rooftop in Whitechapel, where he found hundreds of destitute and orphaned children living in squalor.

The clubs that shaped a generation will be lost

Opinion

Monday, February 21, 2011

| CYP Now

On the last Saturday of January, I attended a surprise 50th birthday party. The target of the surprise was a man who has spent his life as a used-car salesman (and a talented guitar player).