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Vetting changes will hamper social inclusion

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 11, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Last month's concessions in the regulations governing the vetting and barring of those wishing to work with children now mean that, instead of 11 million adults needing to be covered, the number is more likely to be nine million.

Lifelong learning may not be for everyone

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2007
    • | CYP Now
The European Union, through its 2000 "Lisbon strategy", aspires to make Europe the most advanced knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. It is an aspiration premised upon the extension and expansion of education or, to be more precise, "lifelong learning".

In partial defence of Connexions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 25, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Since Alan Milburn's report on social mobility and its well-publicised attack on Connexions, the debate about the merits and drawbacks of the youth support service has become open warfare.

It's time for us to be treated as professionals

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2007
    • | CYP Now
There are some perennial weeds in the youth work garden. Unless they are removed, the aspirations the government has declared for young people will wither away. The obstacles to growth relate to workforce issues.

Prevention is first line of protection

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Lord Laming's report on the state of child protection has injected great urgency in efforts to keep children safe from abuse and neglect. All 58 of his recommendations to improve practice through better procedures, training and lines of accountability have been accepted by the government. The spotlight is on child protection like rarely before.

Super-size kids vs super-size nannyism

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2009
    • | CYP Now
We've all got our memories, rarely charitable, of school dinners. We've probably also got our memories of how we dodged the stodge, with or without our parents' consent. I saved for my first guitar by doing without for a term. I am not quite sure what I actually lived on.

Give youth work freedom to deliver

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
A campaign is brewing to tackle the feeling that policymakers are strangling the life out of youth work. It has been sparked by an open letter by social commentator Tony Taylor, In Defence of Youth Work.

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".

A stab in the back for Connexions

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 13, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Local Government Association (LGA) last week issued research purporting to show the overwhelming majority of young people find formal careers advice only "a little bit" or "not at all" helpful.

An alternative approach to helping looked-after children gain good grades

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 4, 2010
    • | CYP Now
When middle-class children fall behind at school, the parental response is often special tutoring. In London, tutoring for secondary school admission is a substantial industry, and in Birmingham almost all children being put in for grammar school tests are tutored. I'm not judging this, by the way, I was tutored (fruitlessly) for my French O-level; and we paid for extra music lessons whenever needed.

Neat solutions to the issue of Neets

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 1, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Despite recent good news from the Department for Children, Schools and Families that show a record number of 16- to 18-year-olds are taking part in education, employment or training, the level of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) remains stubbornly around the 10 per cent mark.

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