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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.

Editorial: Putting the fun into funded projects

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Youth services across the UK went into overdrive this summer. A whole of host of projects were set up, ranging from traditional sport schemes and youth festivals to more targeted support programmes for young people considered at risk.

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.

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.

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