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Haringey needs intensive support

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 22, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Who would want to work in Haringey children's services? As we reveal this week, care proceedings in the London borough soared after Baby P's death dominated the news.

It can be better to text than to talk

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 28, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) research on positive activities released at the end of August made for interesting reading. Back in March, the DCSF conducted interviews with 72 pairs of young people aged between 13 and 19. The purpose of the research was to understand the motivators and barriers to young people participating in positive activities, and to find the most effective ways in encouraging young people to participate.

Editorial: Let's make staff a New Year priority

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 10, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The publication of the Children's Plan before Christmas and the pledge of an additional 160m for youth facilities over the next two years was a fitting way to round off last year (see page 5).

Cut traffic speed to make cycling safer

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
When I was about 10 a car came around the corner of a quiet country lane and knocked me flying off my bicycle. Fortunately, I went into the hedge and the bike went into the middle of the road.

The beautiful game has started to turn ugly

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
In one of the first discussions on youthful antisocial behaviour during the 1990s, I noted in a speech that most of the lads' magazines tended to be preoccupied with half-naked women and bad-boy footballers.

Strange alliance opposes justice reforms

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 23, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Ever since the overarching Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO) was mooted as the replacement for the complex array of community sentences currently available for young offenders, I have sounded a note of caution. When the Scaled Approach was announced, I immediately started suggesting, in academic lectures on youth justice, that there was an historical precedent that highlighted the need for care in its development.

The joys of sex should be explained

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 30, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Earlier this year, the government confirmed its intention to make sex education compulsory in schools as part of the introduction of personal, social and health education to the National Curriculum.

The old rules still apply in the online world

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 2, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Like many youth workers, I use online social networks. A while back I took the decision to use these networks as a "work profile", that is, to treat any interactions that occur online as part of my job.

Break the cycle of neglect and reoffending

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 13, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Media portrayals of "hoodies" and concerns that antisocial behaviour orders are seen as badges of honour have strengthened the perception that young people and crime are inextricably linked.

Prevention is far better than any cure

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | CYP Now
A preventive approach to support for children and young people has emerged as a clear priority within the reconfigured Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Poetry unlocks the minds of prisoners

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Twice in the space of a week I was in Parc Prison in south Wales. The visits were at either end of a week of poetry, lectures and debate, developed and organised through an impressive and creative tie-up between the real Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye and the prison in Bridgend.

Bureaucracy is a brick wall to recruitment

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 27, 2010
    • | CYP Now
I got a text message the other day that is worth repeating almost in full: "Hi h how's you doin, hope your well. I was thinking of probation work or youth work. would you be able to point me in the right direction. the plastering has gone really bad nothing at all. and im getting very stressed out. If you can that would be fab. much love Nathan. take care x"

Foreign language skills have local benefits

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 9, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Thanks to a range of social influences, the world is now a smaller place than ever before. The internet boom, changing migration patterns, a growing global business community and increasing frequency of international travel have increased the value of foreign language skills and engaging with people from different cultures enormously.

Youth work is a social animal, whatever its form

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 9, 2008
    • | CYP Now
For those who feel contemporary youth work has been sold (or sold itself) down the river and capitulated to state control - through targeted action, planned interventions, recordable outcomes and the accreditation of achievement - the work of Flemish academic Filip Coussee is instructive. His recent book, A Century of Youth Work Policy (Gent Academia Press, 2008), suggests that, rather than having lost its way, youth work has historically never found its path.

Policy into practice - Dance programmes

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The Issue: With the government on a mission to tackle the nation's obesity crisis, support for programmes that promote active and healthier lifestyles is crucial.

The Myplace fund is a missed opportunity

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Much has been made about the transformative effect the Myplace fund will have on youth facilities in England, yet little has been said about whether this is truly the best way to spend this money.

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