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Build communities to tackle knife crime

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Over the past few weeks YMCA has been approached by a number of different media outlets asking the same question: Is the rise in knife crime among young people due to youth service cuts?

Let's adapt our language to 'tell it like it is'

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
At a recent United Nations meeting, 15-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg said: "We have to speak clearly no matter how uncomfortable it may be…You are not mature enough to tell it like it is - even that burden you leave to us children."

Time for an end to 'children at risk' headlines

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Have I Got News for You has a game based on guessing missing words in headlines. Perusing the papers recently, I noticed a headline: "X is putting children at risk, Xs say". Over the next few days, I read several other articles which this headline would have suited. Before I fill in the gaps, spend a few seconds thinking of a few words that might fit - it won't be hard.

LGA study is basis for fairer funding debate

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Having worked at a senior level in a shire county (Somerset), a large city (Birmingham), and a medium-sized unitary (Dudley), I didn't need research to tell me that they are all very different.

We need a broad definition of children in need

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 29, 2018
  • | CYP Now
When the government announced its review of children in need, a legal definition of children supported by social care who have safeguarding and welfare needs, we hoped it would have a wide remit and seek to understand how well these children's needs are being met.

Will new ministers have any new ideas?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018
  • | CYP Now
It is still too early to offer any well-informed predictions of what to expect from new Education Secretary Damian Hinds and his ministers at the Department for Education.

Children Act well-intentioned duty now unrealistic

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 28, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Often while walking between meetings my mind wanders back to the now familiar place it likes to pause: how to reconcile rising demand and reducing resource with high expectations that local authorities can and will minimise error in our child protection system.

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