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Chop the managers and risk decapitating the youth service

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, May 18, 2011
    • | CYP Now
If you take the head off, the rest of the organism will fail. There sits the central nervous system, the main sensory faculties without which the body cannot function. Incidentally, you also deprive the creature of memory, in humans a vital function if we are to learn the lessons of history.

School trips are unlucky victim of efficiency drives

    Opinion
  • Friday, May 13, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The squeeze is on for anything that does not appear immediately important. For colleges, enrichment funding is being slashed. This is funding that has contributed to a wide range of important discretionary activity, from sport to family education.

Tragic deaths in custody point to a system in need of reform

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 3, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Five young people in custody died in the space of just 33 days during March and April. The tragedies mark an exceptionally horrific spell in the youth prison system. To put it in context, no more than five teenagers have died in custody during any entire year since 2005, when the figure was nine.

Youth unemployment: the solutions exist

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 3, 2011
    • | CYP Now
We have seen the headlines screaming at us that one in five young people are jobless, that youth unemployment has hit a "record high" and that the problem is now a "national crisis".

Thought leader

    Opinion
  • Thursday, April 21, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Leadership development must get specific to tackle the unique pressures of social work.

Never mind the inspectorate, recruit the right inspectors

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 18, 2011
    • | CYP Now
On the face of it, the education select committee's call to split Ofsted into two separate inspectorates for education and children's care would represent a further step away from services centred on the needs of the whole child. It is a trend played out in several areas through the disappearance of children's trust arrangements and local authority children's services departments.

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