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Tories must go beyond citizen service

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 12, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Conservatives scored a PR coup in securing such a luminary as Michael Caine to launch their flagship youth policy, the National Citizen Service (NCS), to the electorate last week. Party leader David Cameron cited Gandhi - "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others" - among a flurry of uplifting soundbites to unveil the summer youth scheme for school leavers.

Positive action will counter negative images

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 17, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Congratulations to this year's Positive Images award winners, who have provided a fine example of what can be achieved when young people's creativity and active participation is allowed to shine through (see our feature, pp 20-23).

Work together to hit poverty target

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 11, 2010
    • | CYP Now
We are now in 2010 and the long-held target to halve child poverty by this very year seems light-years away. Nevertheless, the Child Poverty Bill will soon come into law, committing government to eradicate child poverty by 2020.

Editorial - The battle for funding won't go away

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 6, 2008
    • | CYP Now
At a time when young people are politically a high priority and unprecedented levels of money have been promised to the youth sector, it's disappointing to hear that many of the old struggles for funding remain.

Cuts could enhance joint working

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The party conference season is over and national politics is destined for a surreal few months in the run-up to the general election. Expect plenty more short-term children's policy announcements - some even eye- catching - as the main parties try to outmanoeuvre each other to strike a popular chord. Politics in Westminster will become increasingly sensationalised and polarised.

Editorial: Commercialism is damaging childhood

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2007
    • | CYP Now
With the festive season upon us, and the avalanche of consumerism it brings, it is timely that the government's 10-year Children's Plan should include an inquiry into the impact of commercialisation on children's wellbeing.

Never mind the inspectorate, recruit the right inspectors

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 18, 2011
    • | CYP Now
On the face of it, the education select committee's call to split Ofsted into two separate inspectorates for education and children's care would represent a further step away from services centred on the needs of the whole child. It is a trend played out in several areas through the disappearance of children's trust arrangements and local authority children's services departments.

No viable alternative to Connexions

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 26, 2010
    • | CYP Now
"It's going to get bloody". This was apparently the thrust of a breakfast meeting junior children's minister Tim Loughton held with youth sector leaders in Whitehall last week.

Creativity must be at the heart of play strategy

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 29, 2008
    • | CYP Now
There is one commodity that cannot be underestimated in holding the key to children's development: public space. As Play England director Adrian Voce puts it, "children need space first and equipment second," (see Interview, p19).

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