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Keep up the pressure to battle child poverty

17 September 2008, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

In Britain today 3.9 million children are living in poverty. Often unable to afford adequate nutrition, these children frequently suffer from poor health and are highly vulnerable to illnesses. Children...

Editorial: Mentors give hope to young people in custody

17 September 2008, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

Among the myriad challenges of transforming young lives, rehabilitation of young offenders will always be among the toughest. The number of 16- to 25-year-olds behind bars has soared by one-third...

Vox pop - Is a law needed to clarify a child's right to sue a council?

17 September 2008, Children & Young People Now

Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith's think-tank, the Centre for Social Justice, has proposed a new law to clarify the right of children in care to sue local authorities that...

Editorial: Putting the fun into funded projects

15 September 2008, Andy Hillier, editor, Youth Work Now,andy.hillier@haymarket.com, Youth Work Now

Youth services across the UK went into overdrive this summer. A whole of host of projects were set up, ranging from traditional sport schemes and youth festivals to more targeted...

From the Frontline - Uniforms allow the person to shine through

15 September 2008, Shane Jefferson, Youth Work Now

Very few youth organisations nowadays require young people to wear uniforms. Organisations such as ourselves (St John Ambulance), the Scouts, the Guides and a handful of others stand apart because...

Opinion: Youth counselling remains on the periphery

15 September 2008, Barbara Rayment, Youth Work Now

We at Youth Access recently pulled together a response to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Review's Call for Evidence. Among the comments from our members, we received...

Youth work is a social animal, whatever its form

10 September 2008, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

For those who feel contemporary youth work has been sold (or sold itself) down the river and capitulated to state control - through targeted action, planned interventions, recordable outcomes and...

Foreign language skills have local benefits

10 September 2008, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

Thanks to a range of social influences, the world is now a smaller place than ever before. The internet boom, changing migration patterns, a growing global business community and increasing...

Young people's 'endz' can be dicey territory

10 September 2008, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

"There is hatred between people from different areas. Everyone is putting on this hard outer shell. If you put on that outer shell you have to act it out because...

Encourage more volunteering gap years

3 September 2008, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

Having just received their long-awaited A-level and GCSE results, many young people will be putting serious thought into taking a gap year or devoting some time to volunteer work.