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Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices
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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.
Youth sector needs help to realise its true value
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- Tuesday, November 27, 2012 | CYP Now
In this prolonged era of spending cuts, services that promote young people's personal and social development - provided by youth workers and others - have suffered among the deepest.
Children need a long-term plan in this spending abyss
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- Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | CYP Now
The country might be out of recession (again), but with the size of the deficit still enormous, public spending shows no sign of returning to growth. In our special report, we examine the long-term challenges and consequences of children's services spend continuing to fall during this decade.
A vital chance to show that youth services work
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- Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | CYP Now
In times of financial austerity, public services must be able to demonstrate that what they do works.
Young people ‘not known' due to systemic neglect
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- Monday, May 28, 2012 | CYP Now
It was the former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld who said during one of the most maligned press statements of the 21st Century that "there are known unknowns".
Workforce development must survive break-up
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Opinion
- Monday, March 19, 2012 | CYP Now
The lights are about to go out on the Children's Workforce Development Council, with its functions hived off to a number of separate agencies.
Youth Contract scheme must get the right results
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Opinion
- Monday, March 5, 2012 | CYP Now
The government's attempt to get the most vulnerable 16- and 17-year-olds into education, training or work as part of its Youth Contract is welcome, although not before time.
Can social investment really change the world?
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Opinion
- Monday, February 6, 2012 | CYP Now
"There are few moments like this when something happens that can really change the world". That was the proclamation of Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude last summer as plans gathered pace to develop the UK market for social investment. Was he going a bit over the top? Perhaps; but only perhaps.
Guidance is vital to turn youth policy into action
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Opinion
- Monday, January 9, 2012 | CYP Now
Nine months after its conception last March, the government's youth policy arrived into this world six days before Christmas, not exactly kicking and screaming and without much fanfare. Positive for Youth was born after what seemed an interminable but thoroughgoing consultation with the youth sector and young people alike.
League tables can be a force for good if given more care
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Opinion
- Monday, November 14, 2011 | CYP Now
League tables appear to be flavour of the month. The Department for Education published local authorities' three-year performance averages for children in care against 15 indicators a fortnight ago. And then children's minister Tim Loughton last week signalled his support for league tables for youth services at the Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services annual convention, which would be scored at least in part by young people.
NCS must deliver beneath all the packaging and politics
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Opinion
- Monday, September 19, 2011 | CYP Now
David Cameron has promoted his government's flagship youth policy the National Citizen Service with great zeal for many months, and indeed while in opposition for some years.
Riot response requires long-term solutions, not knee-jerk policies
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Opinion
- Monday, August 22, 2011 | CYP Now
The violence across English cities this month triggered its own riot - of condemnation, debate and knee-jerk policy pronouncements. In the days that followed the first outbreak in Tottenham, an exercise in national soul searching took place through the media. Yours truly, for one, did the breakfast TV paper review on Sky News.
Embarrassing custody rates require creative solutions
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Opinion
- Monday, July 25, 2011 | CYP Now
The high number of young people held in youth custody in England and Wales has been a cause of national embarrassment. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has quite rightly raised concerns at the levels of young people held in our youth jails in its recent reports. Despite impressive reductions in recent years, more than 2,000 under-18s were in custody in May.
Private finance can intervene now, but not for generations
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Opinion
- Monday, July 11, 2011 | CYP Now
Early intervention is popular right now in theory, but in many areas is being decimated in practice.
Disparity in youth provision exposes the need for action
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Opinion
- Monday, June 27, 2011 | CYP Now
Our survey of local authority-funded youth club provision in England highlights that clubs tend to be concentrated in deprived areas.
ECM might be dead in name but its substance endures
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Opinion
- Monday, March 21, 2011 | CYP Now
The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda has been something of a taboo for the past 10 months.
National evaluation of youth services is long overdue
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Opinion
- Monday, February 7, 2011 | CYP Now
Two fresh surveys demonstrate that services for young people are a soft target for local authority cuts across the country.
Help small charities prove their worth
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Opinion
- Monday, November 29, 2010 | CYP Now
The Teens and Toddlers programme featured this week has managed to build up a solid evidence base of its effectiveness in helping young people, giving it the opportunity to expand across the UK.
Progress in joint working must go on
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Opinion
- Monday, November 22, 2010 | CYP Now
The decision last week to strip the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) of government funding will inevitably raise concerns that any genuine "development" of the workforce will stall. A plan for how the Department for Education intends to take forward the quango's work is yet to be articulated.
Families shouldn't always come first
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Opinion
- Monday, November 15, 2010 | CYP Now
Families are all the rage when it comes to service delivery, particularly in working with people who are vulnerable or disadvantaged.
Finally, youth sector receives a boost
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Opinion
- Monday, November 8, 2010 | CYP Now
Given that he spent seven years limbering up for the job in opposition, there was some relief when Tim Loughton was named as a children's minister in the coalition six months ago.
Harsh lessons in influencing people
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Opinion
- Thursday, October 28, 2010 | CYP Now
The waiting for the comprehensive spending review is finally over but no doubt it will be many months before the true impact of public spending cuts on services for young people will be known.
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