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Sector must influence the coalition

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 17, 2010
    • | CYP Now
They say that a week is a long time in politics. Quite. As predicted in these pages for many months, the new Tory Secretary of State Michael Gove has renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as the Department for Education.

Election result prolongs uncertainty

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 10, 2010
    • | CYP Now
At the time of writing -- on the historically uncertain afternoon of Friday 7 May -- the Conservatives were about to enter into negotiations with the Liberal Democrats about helping them to form a government.

Safe sex -- or healthy relationships?

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 26, 2010
    • | CYP Now
There seems to be some consternation about the dropping of compulsory sex and relationships education (SRE) from the new Children, Schools and Families Bill before it was pushed through Parliament.

Every Child Matters faces biggest test

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 19, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) pledged, in its annual report last week, to assess and build on the progress of Every Child Matters (ECM) for the next five years, as a policy priority for the coming 12 months. It is a good priority to hold, particularly given the uncertainty ahead.

New thinking needed to help young people who are Neet

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 12, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Neets (not in education, employment or training) are back with a vengeance. Not a day goes by without media, expert or political coverage of the issue. Radio 4's Today programme recently gave it intensive and surprisingly inaccurate coverage, proclaiming the term had come into usage around 2003 (it was in fact 1996).

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.

Gove gives joint working a rude jolt

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.

Offer young people real work opportunities

    Opinion
  • Thursday, April 1, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The latest figures show there are almost 900,000 16- to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neet). Yet young people face many challenges in taking up the formal opportunities that do exist.

A robust case for early intervention

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 29, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Among the flurry of government announcements to come out in the dying days of this Parliament, last week's long-awaited early intervention paper is the most important.

Why O2's Think Big initiative is so important

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 29, 2010
    • | CYP Now
We may come to remember that O2's Think Big initiative coincided with the recall of Jon Venables to prison and the resurrection in the popular consciousness of the horrendous murder of two-year-old James Bulger by two 10-year-olds.

Youth work should be in the limelight

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 23, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Benefits of Youth Work initiative, targeted at local decision-makers and purse-string holders to persuade them of youth work's value, is sorely needed.

Getting back to basics

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 15, 2010
    • | CYP Now
For years there have been deep concerns about the under-achievement of black young people, especially African-Caribbean young men, coupled with discrimination against them in the justice system and the labour market.

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