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The best champions have empathy

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 14, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The challenge to reach out to disadvantaged families has long been the holy grail of children's services, not least in the take-up of childcare.

The next commissioner needs bite

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has fired the starting gun to recruit a children's commissioner for England to succeed Sir Al Aynsley-Green early next year.

Policy into practice Childhood bereavement

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 9, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: Over the past few weeks, advertising in shops and the media has reminded us to make a fuss of our dads on Father's Day. However, for many young people 21 June will be a day of sadness, not celebration. Every 22 minutes a child in Britain is bereaved of a parent - this equates to more than 24,000 newly bereaved children every year.

After the circus, the work carries on

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 9, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It was Oscar Wilde who wrote: "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness" (The Importance of Being Earnest).

It's time to view care in a positive light

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 26, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The recent report calling for a renewed focus on the value of children's homes and earlier reception into care for troubled and damaged children and young people, made fascinating reading.

Lame reaction to protection worries

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 12, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The Children's Secretary has talked a tough game throughout the Baby Peter child protection storm, taking swift action at the outset in commissioning Lord Laming to review child protection arrangements in England.

It's good logic to halve child poverty

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The fiscal stimulus, be it tax cuts or increases in government spending, has been all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic, as the boldest way to ride the recession.

Policy into practice - Homelessness

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2009
    • | CYP Now
THE ISSUE: Having just passed the 10-year anniversary of Labour's commitment to halve the number of children in poverty by 2010, more than a million children in England still live in bad housing, enduring overcrowded, unsanitary or unsafe accommodation.

The key to Ofsted's rehabilitation

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 31, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted has attracted its share of flak in recent months, much of it justified. The verdict of its Annual Performance Assessment of Haringey Council in late 2007 as "good" is now notorious.

Prevention is first line of protection

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Lord Laming's report on the state of child protection has injected great urgency in efforts to keep children safe from abuse and neglect. All 58 of his recommendations to improve practice through better procedures, training and lines of accountability have been accepted by the government. The spotlight is on child protection like rarely before.

Editorial: The defiance of Sharon Shoesmith

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Haringey's former director of children's services has now told her side of the Baby P story. Strikingly, three months on, the ability to unequivocally say sorry still eludes Sharon Shoesmith in the interviews that surfaced last weekend.

Policy into practice - Child trafficking

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
THE ISSUE: Child trafficking is the movement of young people through abduction, deception or force, for exploitation. Children and young people have been found sold into prostitution, drug smuggling, domestic slavery, and forced marriages, with little means of getting help.

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