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Beat the bullies with revitalised playgrounds

7 November 2007, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

It might come as little surprise, but new research shows that boring school playgrounds and playtimes create an environment ripe for negative behaviour and school bullies.

Editorial: Time for us to honour vocational learning

14 November 2007, Tristan Donovan, Children & Young People Now

In the Queen's Speech last week, the government confirmed it would raise the education leaving age.

Bullying is not confined to the playground

12 September 2007, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

Advances in media and the dominance of the internet and mobile telephones have changed the way the young relate to adults and each other.

Music for learning, intelligence and healing

24 October 2007, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

The importance of the arts to children's development is both well-recognised and longstanding.

From the frontline - My liberating experience teaching refugees

9 November 2007, Mike Ridsdale, specialist drugs worker, Cheshire County Council, Youth Work Now

Burma has made headline news for all the wrong reasons recently.

Editorial: How Takeover Day can go beyond tokenism

21 November 2007, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

This Friday (23 November) more than 5,000 children and young people will have a say in the running of more than 400 organisations for the children's commissioner for England's 11...

Prevention is far better than any cure

17 October 2007, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

A preventive approach to support for children and young people has emerged as a clear priority within the reconfigured Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Editorial: Playgrounds should be fun for fun's sake

26 September 2007, Tristan Donovan, Children & Young People Now

When put against protecting children from abuse or making sure they attain the school grades they need to have a decent future as an adult, getting them to have fun...

Lifelong learning may not be for everyone

28 November 2007, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

The European Union, through its 2000 "Lisbon strategy", aspires to make Europe the most advanced knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. It is an aspiration premised upon the extension...

The best education begins in the home

31 October 2007, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

A number of issues have converged for me in recent months. There was the Rowntree report on family relationships, and the Sutton Trust report on social mobility - or rather,...