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Focus of spending must be balanced

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 8, 2009
  • | CYP Now
It's official: the UK spends more money on child welfare and education than the average market economy. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report out last week, we spend just over 90,000 per child from birth to 18 compared to an OECD average among 30 member countries of just under 80,000.

Super centres must learn from pioneers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
  • | CYP Now
Since reopening in 2002, Bolton Lads & Girls Club has been heralded as the model 21st-century youth club. Boasting a state-of-the-art sports hall, a performing arts studio and many other facilities, it has come to personify the super youth club.

Make weekends fun for the young

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 7, 2009
  • | CYP Now
It's official: young people overwhelmingly believe more activities should be available for them at the weekends - 79 per cent - and 65 per cent say they would attend a Friday or Saturday night youth project regularly. What's more, 69 per cent of youth workers say increasing the number of weekend projects would be possible.

Capture the volunteers while we can

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 2, 2009
  • | CYP Now
Volunteers are the life blood of youth work. According to the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, more than 500,000 volunteers give up their spare time to work with young people, outnumbering the number of paid employees by almost 10 to one.

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.

Youth work must avoid isolationism

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 19, 2009
  • | CYP Now
De Montfort University's inquiry on the impact of government policies on youth work has added to the sense of unease expressed in Tony Taylor's open letter, In Defence of Youth Work, that its core principles are under threat.

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