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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?

Naming child offenders harms rehabilitation

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
The recent naming of the 16-year-old child who murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail on the Isle of Bute raises once more very uncomfortable issues about the naming of child defendants in criminal cases.

Let practitioners solve today's challenges

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
In 1939, George Orwell wrote: "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." Orwell was reflecting on the nature of power at the end of a decade that had witnessed widespread human misery.

Let's adapt our language to 'tell it like it is'

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
At a recent United Nations meeting, 15-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg said: "We have to speak clearly no matter how uncomfortable it may be…You are not mature enough to tell it like it is - even that burden you leave to us children."

Time for an end to 'children at risk' headlines

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Have I Got News for You has a game based on guessing missing words in headlines. Perusing the papers recently, I noticed a headline: "X is putting children at risk, Xs say". Over the next few days, I read several other articles which this headline would have suited. Before I fill in the gaps, spend a few seconds thinking of a few words that might fit - it won't be hard.

It was probably lonely this Christmas

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
    • | CYP Now
The festive season has come and gone and, I am sure, there were occasional moments when our eyes and thoughts turned - or were turned - to homeless people.

Time to invest in the children's workforce

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Ask children's services leaders - whether a director of children's services, head teacher or nursery manager - what motivates their staff, and most will say it's a passion to improve outcomes for children, not the wage that comes with it.

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?

Right support vital to keep families together

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
The Clear Blue Waterreport by England's chief social worker Isabelle Trowler and the University of Sheffield is a brave, compelling and defensible reminder of the care we have to take over life-changing decisions about whether and why we think a child should be permanently removed from their birth parents.

Early help must prove it cuts care demand

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 30, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Graham Allen's 2011 report Early Intervention: The Next Steps makes clear that the real savings from early help lay in its ability to reduce the numbers coming into care to such an extent that fewer high-cost residential facilities would be needed.

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.

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