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Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.

A decent education will liberate children in care

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 3, 2012
  • | CYP Now
While I often disagree with Michael Gove on the "how", I applaud his passion for making things better. As he said in his letter to the education select committee: "Regardless of our party affiliation or political principles, we all share a fierce determin­ation to make opportunity more equal." I share that determination.

Black young people need a plan to defy stats

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 23, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Just a few days ago, I spent some time talking to a group of young people who live near me. The conversation was started by a chance remark I heard one of them make while I was waiting for the bus.

Government must keep pace with the baby boom

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 23, 2012
  • | CYP Now
While we soldier on through this age of austerity, more and more little people are appearing. England's birth rate has been creeping up for some years now and the Office for National Statistics projects that it will continue to do so for some time.

Youth employability is reliant on a jobs market

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 28, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The youth unemployment figures - over one million and rising - were not unexpected, but are intensely worrying. The national figure is bad enough, but the regional variation means that in some areas there is a real danger of endemic long-term unemployment.

The art form of cutting out-of-school services

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 31, 2011
  • | CYP Now
All the directors and local politicians I've spoken to of late agree that the impact of the cuts has only just begun to be felt, and that there is much pain yet to come. This is a hard message for colleagues in services at risk and for the young people they serve.

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