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Offer young people real work opportunities

    Opinion
  • Thursday, April 1, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The latest figures show there are almost 900,000 16- to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neet). Yet young people face many challenges in taking up the formal opportunities that do exist.

A robust case for early intervention

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 29, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Among the flurry of government announcements to come out in the dying days of this Parliament, last week's long-awaited early intervention paper is the most important.

Why O2's Think Big initiative is so important

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 29, 2010
  • | CYP Now
We may come to remember that O2's Think Big initiative coincided with the recall of Jon Venables to prison and the resurrection in the popular consciousness of the horrendous murder of two-year-old James Bulger by two 10-year-olds.

Youth work should be in the limelight

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 23, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The Benefits of Youth Work initiative, targeted at local decision-makers and purse-string holders to persuade them of youth work's value, is sorely needed.

Getting back to basics

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 15, 2010
  • | CYP Now
For years there have been deep concerns about the under-achievement of black young people, especially African-Caribbean young men, coupled with discrimination against them in the justice system and the labour market.

Neet strategy is not fit for purpose

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 8, 2010
  • | CYP Now
At last week's Generation Neet debate, CYP Now aimed boldly to identify "how to solve the problem of young people not in education, employment of training (Neet)" via a panel of politicians, experts and young people. Of course, we didn't actually solve the problem.

Curbing the trend towards 'combat' dogs

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 1, 2010
  • | CYP Now
We have good reason to get more anxious about the proliferation of dogs owned, irresponsibly, by young people. Not all young people, of course, but a group of young men for whom ownership of a fighting dog has steadily replaced the possession of a knife. The latter carries a custodial sentence of five years; the former can only result in confiscation.

Funding resolution needs consensus

    Opinion
  • Friday, February 19, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The youth worker strike in Coventry is likely to be followed by further walkouts if other councils go ahead with their proposed youth service cuts.

Outstanding challenge for Ofsted

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 1, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Ofsted-bashing has been on the rise for several months. Cries of exasperation over the way the children's services inspectorate goes about its business have come in fits and starts from all quarters.

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