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Editorial: A magazine to meet the challenges of our time

1 min read Editorial
The wellbeing of the UK's children, young people and their families is the focus of public attention as never before.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has recognised its magnitude by putting children's and youth policy in the Cabinet and at the heart of his government while it is high also on the opposition's agenda. Under Secretary of State Ed Balls, the Department for Children, Schools and Families has set out to work closely with other parts of Whitehall to see children as a whole. It is an enterprise of integrated thinking that mirrors what Every Child Matters has called for at a local level.

And it is this thinking that is the driver for the merger of Children Now and Young People Now. The new magazine, Children & Young People Now, brings together professionals working with the young, from birth to 19, across the public and voluntary sectors. It unites practitioners from early years, youth work, youth justice, social care, health, education, and advice and guidance services, and, of course, directors of children's services and policymakers. We retain the previous titles' respective associations with the National Children's Bureau and The National Youth Agency, and they will both have their dedicated pages. And subscribers will also receive another new title, Youth Work Now, which is dedicated to the practice of youth work, in the first week of every month.

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