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Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.

Policy into practice Children in hospital

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 3, 2009
    • | CYP Now
THE ISSUE: Each year, around one in 15 children and young people will be admitted to hospital. Some of these cases require children to stay in hospital for a significant period of time, resulting in thousands of families facing the difficult emotional and practical challenges of supporting their loved ones.

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.

Asylum age assessments are unethical

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The Home Office is clearly ramping up the use of age assessments for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, making inflammatory suggestions that predatory men are abusing the system by pretending to be children, and talk of new “scientific” methods of determining age.

Queen’s Speech failed most vulnerable families

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Children and young people in the UK are growing up in some of the hardest times in recent history, where inflation rates are at a 40-year high and the cost of living crisis is hitting every household. Low-income families, who were already struggling, are faring the worst.

Autistic children must not be written off

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The government has admitted that the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is not working. We've spoken to nearly 2,000 young people and parents and they've told us the same – the system is broken.

Workforce shortage is threat to care reforms

    Opinion
  • Thursday, February 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The government's Care Review response, Stable Homes, Built on Love, sets ambitious targets for improving children's outcomes, testing new approaches to early help, and boosting professional standards in child protection work.

#LookCloser campaign tackles child exploitation

    Opinion
  • Thursday, February 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The #LookCloser campaign is a nationwide effort aimed at educating the public and businesses about child exploitation and encouraging them to be vigilant in spotting and reporting potential signs of exploitation.

Keep children in custody at the front of our minds

    Opinion
  • Thursday, June 22, 2023
    • | CYP Now
A Child in Mind was the haunting title chosen by Lord Louis Blom-Cooper for his report into the murder of four-year-old Kimberley Carlile in Greenwich in 1986. The challenge of keeping the fate of children in custody in all our minds comes back to me regularly.

Make schools part of wider support system

    Opinion
  • Thursday, June 22, 2023
    • | CYP Now
You can understand if school leaders feel a little put upon. Not content with being tasked to prepare the next generation for the challenges of a rapidly changing world, policymakers are increasingly turning to schools to solve some of society's wider problems.

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