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Recognition of youth work is long overdue

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
    • | CYP Now
This week is Youth Work Week (1-7 November). Co-ordinated by The National Youth Agency, this annual event aims to explain and celebrate youth work and highlight its contribution to the development of young people.

Invite young people to the table - they won't bite

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 12, 2011
    • | CYP Now
As I prepare to consult on the Office of the Children's Commissioner's 2012-13 business plan, I'm back from a weekend with the people I consulted first: my children and young people's advisory board, "Amplify".

Harsh lessons in influencing people

    Opinion
  • Thursday, October 28, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The waiting for the comprehensive spending review is finally over but no doubt it will be many months before the true impact of public spending cuts on services for young people will be known.

League tables can be a force for good if given more care

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 14, 2011
    • | CYP Now
League tables appear to be flavour of the month. The Department for Education published local authorities' three-year performance averages for children in care against 15 indicators a fortnight ago. And then children's minister Tim Loughton last week signalled his support for league tables for youth services at the Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services annual convention, which would be scored at least in part by young people.

Obama offers hope to a whole generation

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 11, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The victory of a black man in the race to secure the most powerful position in the world must carry huge resonance and messages for everybody from minority groups, oppressed ethnic backgrounds and religious persuasions that are not within the mainstream of the country concerned.

Ghosts of Labour system are very much present

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 23, 2012
    • | CYP Now
After a great deal of deliberation and consultation, the Department for Education has at last pumped out the latest governmental aspirations for young people in England. Released last month, Positive for Youth was quite rightly praised in this space by Maggie Atkinson a fortnight ago.

We must help young people get fit to embrace the future

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2021
    • | CYP Now
It is clear that our most recent lockdown has to be our last, and for so many reasons let us hope that turns out to be the case. After more than a year of to-ing and fro-ing, the UK is in dire need of recovery economically, socially and emotionally. The disruption to life has been seismic for all, not least our young people, whose confidence, social engagement skills and motivational drive have been severely tested.

Why earning doesn't live up to learning

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
There is a growing tension between political exhortations to young people to study longer and harder and young people's own experiences of disappointment and frustration about the pay-off from that investment.

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.

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.

Let's protect youth work's distinctiveness

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 26, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"When youth work has been absorbed into a number of new initiatives trying to do all this targeted and focused work, particularly with young people considered to be at risk, somebody is going to come to me in twenty years' time and ask what 'youth work' was, and when I tell them, they will say 'we need it back'".

Just don't mention the Olympics

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 6, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It came as news to me that as soon as the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Games is over and done with, we will commence our "Cultural Olympiad".

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.

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