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Why is our response to Neets so inadequate?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 29, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The revelation by the London School of Economics that there could be double the recorded number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) should be no surprise. What is a surprise is that no one is yet making a connection between such "inactivity" and "activity" in informal economic and illegal domains including, probably, violent crime.

Welfare officers provide vital defence

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 6, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Education welfare officers (who go by the glorious acronym of EWOs) provide a lifeline to vulnerable schoolchildren, and there are calls this week for their contribution to be properly recognised.

Are youth workers prepared for bereavement?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 24, 2008
    • | CYP Now
As we read almost weekly of the death of another young person through violent crime, it is perhaps easy to forget that young people die, albeit fairly rarely, from a range of causes. When those young people have been associated with youth work projects, the immediate question is what can, or should, youth workers do?

Editorial: Don't fear stepping back into the ring

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 30, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It was one particularly epic fight between Chris Eubank and Michael Watson in the early 1990s that really forced home the dangers of boxing. Watson was left in a coma for 40 days and ultimately disabled, which led to mass hysteria in the media and calls for the sport to be banned.

How funding regimes maintain the status quo

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 23, 2008
    • | CYP Now
I was delighted to read that Children in Need is to become more proactive in some elements of its funding strategy (CYP Now, 10-16 September). This is something that is absolutely necessary across the funding spectrum.

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.

Charities must evolve to stay relevant

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 24, 2019
    • | CYP Now
In June 1844, a young man met with his colleagues in an upstairs room of a drapery store just a few yards from St Paul's Cathedral in London. That young man was Sir George Williams and the meeting resulted in the formation of the YMCA.

Fears over universal credit demand action

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 28, 2017
    • | CYP Now
The impact on poor people of the rollout of universal credit - the minimum six-week delay in receiving the first payment, the reduced amount that most claimants receive, the frequent slide into debt - is well known. But its impact on child protection has been largely overlooked.

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