Personal account Institutional account
| Register |
Children & Young People Now Children & Young People Now

Search Results

Found 1,064 results for .

Guidance is vital to turn youth policy into action

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 9, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Nine months after its conception last March, the government's youth policy arrived into this world six days before Christmas, not exactly kicking and screaming and without much fanfare. Positive for Youth was born after what seemed an interminable but thoroughgoing consultation with the youth sector and young people alike.

Help small charities prove their worth

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 29, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Teens and Toddlers programme featured this week has managed to build up a solid evidence base of its effectiveness in helping young people, giving it the opportunity to expand across the UK.

Gove gives joint working a rude jolt

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.

Tackle homelessness to end poverty

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 6, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The government's target to end child poverty becomes even more important in light of the number of children and young people who are homeless or live in sub-standard accommodation.

Editorial: There is no magic bullet to halt gang violence

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 13, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The problem of gang-related knife crime unfortunately shows no sign of abating. It is now wedged firmly into the national consciousness, summing up the feeling of malaise that this government's detractors have branded as "Broken Britain".

Letters to the Editor: Youth work focus does not go far enough

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Having a statement or policy on youth work, however limited, has been a long time coming. Not since Positive for Youth have we had a definitive refresh of the government's approach to young people, and it looks like the ongoing influence of the youth voice movement, and youth services lobby, has been heard in some quarters.

Funding and fairness key to schools debate

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 30, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The speech by shadow education secretary Angela Rayner to the Labour party conference was strong on principle - whatever your view of academies, she has come out strongly in support of a particular vision of education.

Education cuts undermine SEND reforms

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
    • | CYP Now
An Ofsted report into the support (or lack of) for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)published in December was reported as a "national scandal". True. But who's to blame?

Embrace the unpredictability of adolescence

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 27, 2019
    • | CYP Now
In 1802, Wordsworth wrote: "The child is father to the man." In 2019, the phrase has added meaning: Greta Thunberg, at 16, has shown us a clarity of thought and purpose that puts world leaders to shame and she has inspired young people to speak out and to take action through school strikes.

Opinion: Who carries the can when things go wrong in childsafeguarding?

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 12, 2014
    • | CYP Now
What did you think last month when you heard that the Prime Minister of South Korea had offered his resignation in the wake of the ferry disaster? I don't suppose anybody thought that the PM had been at the helm of the ship that sunk, or that he could personally be held to blame for any lapses in the training of supervision of the ferry. But the culture in South Korea expects that those in highest authority carry responsibility for anything that goes wrong.

Opinion: Learning by doing has more impact than learning by rote

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 12, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Here's an admission: I've recently come to the view that what I've believed for a long time about how I work is, if not wrong, woefully incomplete. Worse, I've always known this, subconsciously, but have ignored it because it did not fit my prejudices. For years, I have been promoting the need to understand the legal basis of what we do. I am one of the sad people to have read the year 2000 study on the law of education and the role of the local authority, from preface to appendices. I was one of the few students attending the lectures on education law during my Postgraduate Certificate in Education course.

Lessons for commissioners from Carillion

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Between the spectacle of President Trump's visit and the drama of Brexit, it would have been easy to miss the report from the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) on the lessons for politicians and public service commissioners following the collapse of Carillion.

Social mobility and selection do not mix

    Opinion
  • Thursday, May 4, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Hard on the heels of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health report The State of Child Health, which showed the strong links between poverty and poor health outcomes, the Social Mobility Commission has done the same for education with low-income pupils' progress at secondary school.

Opinion: Childcare tax reforms come too late as providers struggle on

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 31, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The coalition government's announcement of a revised childcare tax break scheme received mixed responses from the sector, charities and think-tanks. Some have welcomed the news to increase the childcare tax break from £1,200 to £2,000 a child and the rise in age range from five to 12 years from the start of the scheme. In addition, the revised scheme, which will operate online, will be open to those who are self-employed. Others have criticised the decision to make the tax breaks for childcare available to families with incomes of up to £300,000. They argue the offer will help richer parents most, that it will be difficult to police and for some families it will be less generous than the current childcare voucher regime.

Impact of the SIF will be felt for many years

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Two years ago, Ofsted national director for social care Eleanor Schooling said she expected children's services judgments under the single inspection framework (SIF) to begin improving.

© MA Education 2024. Published by MA Education Limited, St Jude's Church, Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 0PB, a company registered in England and Wales no. 04002826. MA Education is part of the Mark Allen Group.