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Giving children a better start in life

The National Lottery-funded A Better Start programme to boost early child development celebrates its fifth birthday this month. Those involved in the programme highlight its achievements to date.

General election 2019: Key policy guide

    Analysis
  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Derren Hayes analyses what the main parliamentary parties are pledging on the key policy battlegrounds for the children, young people and families sector at the coming general election.

Help families in poverty trap

    Other
  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
The steady rise in child poverty in recent years is a national disgrace, and should be a code-red priority for political parties of every hue.

Embrace the unpredictability of adolescence

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 27, 2019
  • | CYP Now
In 1802, Wordsworth wrote: "The child is father to the man." In 2019, the phrase has added meaning: Greta Thunberg, at 16, has shown us a clarity of thought and purpose that puts world leaders to shame and she has inspired young people to speak out and to take action through school strikes.

Let practitioners solve today's challenges

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
In 1939, George Orwell wrote: "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." Orwell was reflecting on the nature of power at the end of a decade that had witnessed widespread human misery.