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Policy into practice Time for fun

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
THE ISSUEReports looking at childhood have claimed that children's lives in Britain have become "more difficult than in the past", and that "more young people are anxious and troubled".

Initiation rituals don't have to humiliate

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
After all the scandals in the armed forces about the brutality and humiliation that accompanied the initiation rites of new recruits, I wondered whether there might be any positive aspects to such procedures.

There is funding beyond Whitehall

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 3, 2009
    • | CYP Now
There's no doubting that the 201.7m the government is investing in youth facilities will create some fantastic venues for young people over the next few years.

Time for 21st-century youth workers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 3, 2009
    • | CYP Now
What are youth workers for? It might be a difficult question - but it's time we asked it again. And you know me, I'm always happy to bring an elephant into the room.

Palestine's young people can lead the way

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 3, 2009
    • | CYP Now
At the end of January, the Council of Europe held a seminar with the League of Arab States on the development and implementation of youth policy in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

The reinvention of the Woodcraft Folk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I have always had a deep affection for the Woodcraft Folk. Though often considered rather quaint in recent years, and a little unfairly associated with pixies dressed in green tunics dancing around a fire in the woods, it was a youth organisation that pioneered work around internationalism, environment, participation, democracy and peace.

When high finance fails it affects us all

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The few hundred pounds that can be so important to a local youth project might appear to have very little connection with the multi-billion pound dealings about which we have become accustomed to reading over the past few months.

Weekend working comes at a price

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I don't know how true it ever was, but over the years, youth and community work lecturers have often reported to me the first-year students who are keen to do the work but unwilling to work in the evening.

Policy into practice: Myplace youth centre grants

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: High-quality, attractive places for young people to go to are critical in our efforts to create inspirational activities for them, raise their aspirations and improve their wellbeing. Construction of world-class youth centres also contributes to reducing antisocial behaviour.

The Myplace fund is a missed opportunity

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Much has been made about the transformative effect the Myplace fund will have on youth facilities in England, yet little has been said about whether this is truly the best way to spend this money.

Informal educators or bureaucrats and spies?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"Not another bloody form!" says Patricia when I give her the paperwork required for a girls' project. "Oh no!" groans Jerome in exasperation when handed several pages of monitoring forms at the end of a film project.

Teenagers' tarnished image can be rebuilt

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It's been a tough year for Britain's youth. It started with the front cover of Time magazine featuring a menacing young man wearing a hooded top, superimposed with a Union Jack flag. The cover star represented Britain's youth who are, claimed the US publication, "unhappy, unloved and out of control".

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