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Victory for children is all that matters

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 4, 2010
    • | CYP Now
CYP Now does not support any particular political party. This title's instincts are, and always will be, driven by what best serves the interests of children, young people and their families.

Editorial: A tough decade for the youth justice system

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 20, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The youth justice system is under heightened scrutiny as we approach the tenth anniversary of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, which created the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) alongside local youth offending teams (YOTs).

Jobs famine deepens the generational rift

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 14, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Just as youth unemployment hits a record high, fanning fears that Britain's young people could become a "lost generation", the government has scrapped the default retirement age. So more older people are now competing for fewer jobs with the rest of the workforce.

Strategy must boost youth opportunities

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 28, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The government's long-awaited Civil Society Strategy recognises the "transformational impact that youth services and trained youth workers" can have on disadvantaged young people.

Build communities to tackle knife crime

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Over the past few weeks YMCA has been approached by a number of different media outlets asking the same question: Is the rise in knife crime among young people due to youth service cuts?

Police show why early help is everyone's duty

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
    • | CYP Now
In a passionate address at the recent National Children and Adult Services Conference, Stuart Gallimore, vice-president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), explained that cuts to his budget in East Sussex means he will have to make decisions about provision he knows don't "make sense" in the long run. He, like other DCSs, faces the dilemma to reduce funding to early help provision to maintain services for children in care and at risk - knowing that doing so could raise the vulnerability of those whose problems are less severe.

Don't take early intervention for granted

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 15, 2012
    • | CYP Now
When the Deputy Prime Minister made the welcome announcement at the Liberal Democrat conference that £100m of capital funding would go to help nurseries and childminders increase the number of places they offer, it felt like the party conference season was getting off to a promising start for early intervention.

Mental health reforms can't wait until 2023

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
    • | CYP Now
After all the talking and all the waiting it was great to finally see the green paper on children's mental health published in December. But it was like unwrapping a Christmas gift from someone who doesn't know you very well: you're excited to get anything, grateful they thought of you, then disappointed that you didn't get exactly what you wanted.

England is out of kilter on youth policy

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
    • | CYP Now
At the end of last year, Tracey Crouch, England's youth minister, announced the shelving of plans for a new three-year youth policy statement, despite this being promised by her predecessor a year ago. The argument was that a broader civil society strategy was needed instead, one that embraced much more than youth work and youth policy.

Incentives are key to halt school exclusions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The education committee's report on exclusions and alternative provisions makes it abundantly clear that the current system is failing some children, and that rising exclusion rates are a reflection of this.

Army of childminders can help bridge the gap

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 20, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Social mobility is thankfully all the rage these days, and the free childcare entitlement is a crucial policy to help all children get the best start in life regardless of background.

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