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Make weekends fun for the young

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 7, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's official: young people overwhelmingly believe more activities should be available for them at the weekends - 79 per cent - and 65 per cent say they would attend a Friday or Saturday night youth project regularly. What's more, 69 per cent of youth workers say increasing the number of weekend projects would be possible.

The old rules still apply in the online world

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 2, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Like many youth workers, I use online social networks. A while back I took the decision to use these networks as a "work profile", that is, to treat any interactions that occur online as part of my job.

Start from the street and work your way up

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 2, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's pretty much accepted that you learn about youth work first and detached work later, as a specialism. As the debate rages about "the future of youth work" and the state of our values, I'd like to suggest we turn that round. What would it look like if we started with detached youth work?

Capture the volunteers while we can

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 2, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Volunteers are the life blood of youth work. According to the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, more than 500,000 volunteers give up their spare time to work with young people, outnumbering the number of paid employees by almost 10 to one.

It is time to renew our curriculum

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 2, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I don't know if you read Howard Williamson's column in Children & Young People Now a few weeks ago ("I'll tell you what youth workers really do", 11-17 June).

The next commissioner needs bite

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has fired the starting gun to recruit a children's commissioner for England to succeed Sir Al Aynsley-Green early next year.

Youth work must avoid isolationism

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    • | CYP Now
De Montfort University's inquiry on the impact of government policies on youth work has added to the sense of unease expressed in Tony Taylor's open letter, In Defence of Youth Work, that its core principles are under threat.

The cat's out of the bag on Connexions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    • | CYP Now
In the latest collection of essays on the history of youth and community work (Russell House Publishing, 2009), the former chief executive of The National Youth Agency Tom Wylie provides an account of the charity's origins.

It's all sunbeds and steroids nowadays

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 12, 2009
    • | CYP Now
As the Budget revealed the depths of Britain's economic difficulties, coal was in the news again. This time around there are plans for a greener approach to coal-fired energy. Perhaps it will offer occupational possibilities to young people.

Tories would create a youth-friendly society

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
While the government has introduced welcome initiatives, such as the youth opportunity fund and mentors in schools during its 11-year tenure, the sheer number of youth programmes that have come and gone have left many professionals experiencing initiative overload.

Who says teens don't do politics?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
"Only" 24 per cent of young people aged 18 to 24 say they are certain to vote at a general election, compared with 57 per cent of those over 25, according to a recent report from the Hansard Society.

Good youth work sets you up for life

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Tony Taylor's open letter "In defence of youth work" could not have been more timely for me (CYP Now, 23-29 April). I tend to agree broadly with his thesis, even though the devil can be in the detail on principles such as voluntarism. And times do change - as I have said before, youth work has to distinguish between its cherished values (to be defended) and its sacred cows (to be slain).

Youth employment is key to revival

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The outstandingly depressing budget of 2009 has left children's services in limbo, braced for the tightest of public spending squeezes and a likely change of government.

Wild wastelands should be scenes of fun

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The swathes of land that were once the industrial heartlands of Britain, now reclaimed by nature, offer a fantastic adventure playground for children and young people. The communities that grew up surrounded by coal and steel now have wild parklands on their doorstep.

Give youth work freedom to deliver

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
A campaign is brewing to tackle the feeling that policymakers are strangling the life out of youth work. It has been sparked by an open letter by social commentator Tony Taylor, In Defence of Youth Work.

Super-size kids vs super-size nannyism

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2009
    • | CYP Now
We've all got our memories, rarely charitable, of school dinners. We've probably also got our memories of how we dodged the stodge, with or without our parents' consent. I saved for my first guitar by doing without for a term. I am not quite sure what I actually lived on.

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