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Build communities to tackle knife crime
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Opinion
- Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | CYP Now
Over the past few weeks YMCA has been approached by a number of different media outlets asking the same question: Is the rise in knife crime among young people due to youth service cuts?
Naming child offenders harms rehabilitation
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Opinion
- Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | CYP Now
The recent naming of the 16-year-old child who murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail on the Isle of Bute raises once more very uncomfortable issues about the naming of child defendants in criminal cases.
Let practitioners solve today's challenges
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | CYP Now
In 1939, George Orwell wrote: "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." Orwell was reflecting on the nature of power at the end of a decade that had witnessed widespread human misery.
Relationship training key to custody reform
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | CYP Now
The chief inspector of prisons' most recent annual report paints a worrying picture of relationships between young people in custody and officers.
Good record keeping is vital social work skill
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | CYP Now
When my husband had a heart attack last summer, I found myself reflecting on the importance of written records.
Let's adapt our language to 'tell it like it is'
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Opinion
- Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | CYP Now
At a recent United Nations meeting, 15-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg said: "We have to speak clearly no matter how uncomfortable it may be…You are not mature enough to tell it like it is - even that burden you leave to us children."
Time for an end to 'children at risk' headlines
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Opinion
- Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | CYP Now
Have I Got News for You has a game based on guessing missing words in headlines. Perusing the papers recently, I noticed a headline: "X is putting children at risk, Xs say". Over the next few days, I read several other articles which this headline would have suited. Before I fill in the gaps, spend a few seconds thinking of a few words that might fit - it won't be hard.
CAMHS needs waiting time target honoured
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Opinion
- Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | CYP Now
The NHS Long Term Plan sets out ambitious pledges to improve children and young people's mental health services over the next decade.
It was probably lonely this Christmas
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Opinion
- Wednesday, January 2, 2019 | CYP Now
The festive season has come and gone and, I am sure, there were occasional moments when our eyes and thoughts turned - or were turned - to homeless people.
Time to invest in the children's workforce
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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.
Education cuts undermine SEND reforms
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Opinion
- Wednesday, January 2, 2019 | CYP Now
An Ofsted report into the support (or lack of) for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)published in December was reported as a "national scandal". True. But who's to blame?
Early help must focus on the under-twos
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | CYP Now
Every so often, a "landmark" report on early intervention is published.
Focus on reunification could stem care rise
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | CYP Now
As 2018 draws to a close, funding across the entire children's sector has never felt more precarious.
Right support vital to keep families together
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Opinion
- Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | CYP Now
The Clear Blue Waterreport by England's chief social worker Isabelle Trowler and the University of Sheffield is a brave, compelling and defensible reminder of the care we have to take over life-changing decisions about whether and why we think a child should be permanently removed from their birth parents.
Early help must prove it cuts care demand
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 30, 2018 | CYP Now
Graham Allen's 2011 report Early Intervention: The Next Steps makes clear that the real savings from early help lay in its ability to reduce the numbers coming into care to such an extent that fewer high-cost residential facilities would be needed.
Remake the welfare state for children
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 30, 2018 | CYP Now
By the time you read this column, Budget Day will have come and gone.
Funding and fairness key to schools debate
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Opinion
- Tuesday, October 30, 2018 | CYP Now
The speech by shadow education secretary Angela Rayner to the Labour party conference was strong on principle - whatever your view of academies, she has come out strongly in support of a particular vision of education.
Civil Society Strategy avoids big youth issues
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | CYP Now
Young people have been dreadfully neglected by the UK government, with a refusal to follow 2011's Positive for Youth with a new, or at least refreshed, youth strategy.
State and charities must pool resources
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | CYP Now
I was recently one of the judges for the CYP Now Awards 2018 and was, as ever, impressed by the range of work being delivered.
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