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Three key issues of the 2010s to fix in the 2020s

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
  • | CYP Now
The new government will need to solve quickly a number of longstanding issues affecting vulnerable children and families if it is to offer a more optimistic outlook for a children’s sector worn down by a decade of austerity.

Prioritise help for homeless young people

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Housing charity Shelter released some worrying statistics in early December, highlighting the number of children expected to be homeless or living in temporary accommodation over Christmas would hit a 12-year high.

Trust young people to make their vote count

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
With the general election looming, our thoughts turn to prospects for the future and as the old joke about someone asking the way goes “if I were you, I would not start from here!”

Trial shows votes at 16 is a verdict to support

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
I undertook jury service at the Old Bailey earlier this year. The case I adjudicated on was not a conventional trial, but deciding if the country is ready to lower the voting age to 16 for all UK elections.

When care practice outflanks the law

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
It is 30 years since the Children Act 1989 received Royal Assent and despite the fact it has not subsequently been repealed or even substantially amended, the current "crisis" in the care system suggests that practice has drifted away from two of its key principles: that the state should work in partnership with parents; and that if families can be supported without recourse to the law, they should be.

The importance of dads in the early years

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
During Mental Health Week, the Movember Foundation published its survey on new dads and there was some striking similarities with findings from a consultation we did with men in Blackpool about their experiences of being a new dad.

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