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Permanency must be key focus of placement making

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Sorting out the myriad problems with the care system has to be a top priority of Education Secretary Gillian Keegan in 2023. Further evidence – if any were needed – that the system is not working well came with two reports on adoption just before Christmas.

We need a joined-up strategy for children

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
    • | CYP Now
The situation facing many children in this country is at crisis point. More families are finding themselves in desperate circumstances, whether that’s due to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis or because early intervention support has been starved of resources due to cuts to children’s social care budgets and funds being diverted towards late interventions.

The silent struggle of asylum-seeking children

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2024
    • | CYP Now
In the heart of the debate surrounding the Safety of Rwanda Bill and amidst the heated discussions on immigration policy, it’s critical that we keep our attention firmly on the vulnerable children and young people seeking refuge within our borders.

Tories would create a youth-friendly society

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
While the government has introduced welcome initiatives, such as the youth opportunity fund and mentors in schools during its 11-year tenure, the sheer number of youth programmes that have come and gone have left many professionals experiencing initiative overload.

It's time to view care in a positive light

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 26, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The recent report calling for a renewed focus on the value of children's homes and earlier reception into care for troubled and damaged children and young people, made fascinating reading.

Youth work by the freezer cabinet

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2007
    • | CYP Now
I want to describe bumping into young people in Sainsbury's as an occupational hazard. But that makes it sound like a bad thing when it's not.

Outstanding challenge for Ofsted

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 1, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted-bashing has been on the rise for several months. Cries of exasperation over the way the children's services inspectorate goes about its business have come in fits and starts from all quarters.

Trial by media

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 8, 2010
    • | CYP Now
So what might be said about Jon Venables that has not been said already?

Integrated working makes a comeback

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 31, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Good ideas never completely disappear. After early prophecies of doom, the idea of integrated working in the children and youth workforce seems to be enjoying something of a renaissance at present.

Careers advice needs clear direction

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 28, 2009
    • | CYP Now
We're in the darkest depths of recession, and about to enter a transformation in post-16 learning through the expansion of diplomas and apprenticeships. Young people could really do with some sure-footed careers advice right now.

Young people should be positively engaged

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2007
    • | CYP Now
The government's new Youth Taskforce aims to deliver on the 10-year strategy Aiming High for Young People, which focuses on the expansion of positive activities, creating new places to go and developing local services to support young people.

Policy into practice - Extracurricular activities

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 11, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: Demonstrating soft skills, such as decision making, relationship building, problem solving and teamwork, can really help to boost a young person's employment prospects. Former Health Secretary Alan Milburn's recent report into social mobility says that in order to help narrow the attainment gap between young people from different social backgrounds, schools should provide a range of extracurricular activities.

Spend on the service, not the name

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
When we brought youth workers and personal advisers together to create a new service for young people we stopped for a moment to consider what it should be called.

Young people in custody matter too

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
A government-commissioned review into the use of restraint in the youth prison system reported last December that force must be used as a "last resort".

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