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Government is tightening the screw on young people's lives

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  • Monday, August 3, 2015
    • | CYP Now
The phrase "turn of the screw" refers to an action that makes a bad situation worse, especially one that forces someone to do something. And one reason, perhaps, that prison officers are routinely known as "screws" is because of the mediaeval torture using thumbscrews - tightening them up to increase the pain. In just a generation, young people really have witnessed and experienced the turn of the screw.

Recovery through therapy must be care system's goal

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  • Monday, July 20, 2015
    • | CYP Now
I published the State of the Nation for Children in Care report this month on the views of 3,000 children in care and care leavers aged eight to 25. One of the most startling findings was the staggering 50 per cent who said they didn't understand why they were in care in the first place.

Children's rights are powerful tools for improving young lives

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  • Monday, July 6, 2015
    • | CYP Now
The voluntary sector's attitude to rights is ambivalent. When we appeal to the public, make our case to funders or seek to influence policy makers, we tend to emphasise children's needs and the services that we offer rather than talking about children's rights. In private, despite our own stated beliefs, we conclude that rights language is toxic - a turn-off to our supporters and politically unpopular.

This is how the government can improve children's lives

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  • Monday, May 25, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Although all the political parties featured children's issues in their manifestos, with all of the debate about national priorities in the run-up to the general election, I am sure I was not alone in being disappointed that children did not feature more prominently in the promises made by any of them.

Triangle Trust - development grants

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  • Monday, May 25, 2015
    • | CYP Now
The Triangle Trust's grants are designed to help charities, social enterprises and community interest companies whose primary purpose is to support unpaid carers or those helping the rehabilitation of offenders to develop sustainable income sources, so that when it comes to an end, the organisation's income will not be reduced.

Legal Update: Resolution on transgender rights

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  • Monday, May 25, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Kirsten Anderson, research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines how a Council of Europe resolution relates to the rights of transgender young people to change their legal gender.

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