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Hidden costs of payment-by-results

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 5, 2010
    • | CYP Now
We are in an age of austerity where outcomes are critical. So it is difficult to take issue in raw principle with the government's desire to commission more public services on a payment-by-results basis.

Who would gain from a licence?

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 27, 2010
    • | CYP Now
At the tail end of the summer, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announced that it had no plans to introduce occupational licences, including one for youth work.

Abolition of YJB is difficult to justify

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 18, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The government's decision to scrap the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in last week's "bonfire of the quangos" is bewildering. In recent years, since the welcome demise of New Labour's Respect agenda, the YJB has helped to reduce first-time entrants to the criminal justice system and the youth custody population has come down.

Young people's 'endz' can be dicey territory

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 9, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"There is hatred between people from different areas. Everyone is putting on this hard outer shell. If you put on that outer shell you have to act it out because your friends think that's who you are"... "If you are part of a gang then you're not a very free person and you'll be wanted in another area"... "Fear is one of the worst things that holds people back and controls them".

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