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Universal credit cut reduces young people’s options

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 28, 2021
    • | CYP Now
We are all too aware that universal credit offers a vital lifeline for vulnerable young people. For many the £20 uplift, introduced last year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, has broadened the horizon in terms of their financial and living opportunities.

Make improving children's wellbeing explicit aim of all work

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Children in the UK are continuing to feel more unhappy with their lives. At The Children’s Society we have just published our 10th annual Good Childhood Report. Yet again we are sounding the alarm over the wellbeing of our children – and yet again we have to wonder, who is listening?

Youth work is integral to rural communities

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
    • | CYP Now
My summer holiday was in Somerset. A village near our campsite had a recently built youth centre attached to the community hall. A sign advertised the one two-hour session for young people each week, on a Thursday evening. But when we went back on the Thursday evening the club was shut and no young people were around.

Corporate providers must be held to account

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 28, 2021
    • | CYP Now
The moving of children from Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre should be a stark warning that we have systematically failed to protect the most vulnerable from abuse, failed to hold those in authority to account and failed to mend a broken system.

We must help young people get fit to embrace the future

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2021
    • | CYP Now
It is clear that our most recent lockdown has to be our last, and for so many reasons let us hope that turns out to be the case. After more than a year of to-ing and fro-ing, the UK is in dire need of recovery economically, socially and emotionally. The disruption to life has been seismic for all, not least our young people, whose confidence, social engagement skills and motivational drive have been severely tested.

Bias recognition vital to tackle disproportionality

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2021
    • | CYP Now
I had in many ways a privileged middle-class childhood. As well as a smattering of rather poor exam results, my upbringing gave me huge dollops of unconscious bias, particularly in respect to people of different backgrounds, races and ethnicities. Over the last 50 years, I have worked at expunging this bias, often slowly and painfully.

Message on first 1,001 days still not heard

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Reading a recent edition of CYP Now, I was struck that on almost every page the case was being made, by a range of professionals, about the importance of investing in the early years.

Tech’s vital role in the future of childhood

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 27, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Likening the scale of the challenge to reconstructing the social security system after the second world war, the children’s commissioner for England has said she will be “fearless” in representing children’s interests as England continues on its road to recovery.

Put child health hubs on England’s high streets

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 20, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Public services are not known for being agile, but the pandemic has seen councils “pivot” to provide support online, redeploy staff where the demand is greatest and work across departments to meet a range of families’ needs.

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