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Charities collaborate to speak truth to power

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 20, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The thorough reworking of the Illegal Migration Bill [now Act] as it made its way through parliament is an important reminder of how the charity and community sector speaks truth to power in ways that make policymakers sit up and listen.

Time to deliver Care Review reforms

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2024
    • | CYP Now
On 23 May, 2022, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care was published, a government-commissioned report into how the children’s social care system could work better for everyone involved, but especially the children in it.

Not all of the youth workers come from Mars

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 11, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Some youth workers are from Venus and others are from Mars. You may not get the reference to a famous book on gender but the point remains that there are two kinds of exponents of something both camps call youth work but they clearly do not operate under the same canvas.

Class and race merit more attention

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 25, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The underachievement of white working-class children has justifiably become a cause for national concern. Plenty of schools are making great strides to tackle the issue. Nevertheless, it has led to declarations, most recently from Communities Secretary John Denham, that social class is the most significant factor in determining school achievement rather than ethnicity.

Viewpoint - The internet is just one way to reach them

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 10, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Can you remember life before the internet? For today's 16-year-olds, born in 1992, there has never been a time when it didn't exist. What's more, they have grown up with a mobile phone - and there has always been multi-channel television.

Conquer your technology demons

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 10, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Happy New Year. I'm sure a few of you will be glad to be back at work just to get away from that wireless broadband router that won't connect to the internet.

Keep the uniforms away from youth work

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Just when custody officers in young offender institutions are dressing down - into more relaxed trousers and track suit tops, from their previous quasi-military attire - so I notice that more and more youth services are requiring their workers dress in distinctive uniforms proclaiming their identity, if not their status.

The young volunteer army saving us millions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Over the summer holidays I've had the privilege of working alongside more than 50 enthusiastic teenagers. These young people, who gave up their own time voluntarily, were helping to provide fun and memorable activities for hundreds of younger children. They sang, played sports, danced, did art and craft activities, and even got voted into a gunge tank on some occasions.

Just the job for parents who want to work

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 22, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Welfare reform is a political hot potato at the moment. The Conservative Party's widely trumpeted Work for Welfare policy paper this month followed hot on the heels of the Department for Work and Pension's Ready for Work strategy, published in December.

Editorial: YJB chair must stand up to political heat

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 22, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The government has at last ended its search for a permanent chair of the Youth Justice Board (see p7). Frances Done's appointment rounds off a turbulent 12 months for the YJB, for it was this very week last year that Rod Morgan resigned the post.

Asylum policy ignores child welfare

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 10, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's a bit much to expect governments to demonstrate consistency. As of last week, under Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009, UK Border Agency staff have a duty to consider and promote the welfare of children when exercising their functions. That's a welcome and long-anticipated development.

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