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Too much masquerades as youth work

4 December 2008, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

We hear a lot of rhetoric these days about quality and standards. The trouble is that it can be so difficult to get beneath the rhetoric.

Small interventions make a big difference

27 November 2008, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

"My electric wheelchair blew up yesterday ... the bus driver wouldn't put down the ramps for my other wheelchair, and that's difficult to drive because I've got a frozen shoulder...

Teenage fathers

27 November 2008, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

The government launched a campaign earlier this month called Think Fathers to dispel the myth that dads are the invisible parent.

Editorial: This cycle of hate does children no good

27 November 2008, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

The outburst of vitriol towards social workers emanating from some of the media and online message boards in the wake of Baby P has been comparable in tone to the...

Obama offers hope to a whole generation

13 November 2008, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

The victory of a black man in the race to secure the most powerful position in the world must carry huge resonance and messages for everybody from minority groups, oppressed...

Calm heads are needed in times of hardship

10 November 2008, Adam Nichols, Youth Work Now

A month or so ago there was some doubt as to whether the global financial crisis was being partly generated by the media.

From the frontline - Who would benefit from a licence to practise?

10 November 2008, Mani Sherwin, Youth Work Now

There are lots of things worrying staff, managers and volunteers in third sector organisations working with young people.

Editorial: The erosion of voluntary participation

10 November 2008, Andy Hillier, editor, Youth Work Now andy.hillier@haymarket.com, Youth Work Now

The prominent youth work academic Tony Jeffs noted in 2001 that one of the defining characteristics of youth work was that young people were able to participate voluntarily.

Recognition of youth work is long overdue

6 November 2008, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

This week is Youth Work Week (1-7 November). Co-ordinated by The National Youth Agency, this annual event aims to explain and celebrate youth work and highlight its contribution to the...

Leisure time does not have to be purposeless

30 October 2008, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

There is a growing debate about the ways in which young people use their leisure time.