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Child health: the elephant in the corner?

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 10, 2011
    • | CYP Now
You will know of the three blind men who meet an elephant. One touches the elephant's leg and describes him as being like a tree trunk. A second holds the trunk and argues he is much closer to a hose pipe. And the third, grasping the tail, claims the elephant is like a rope.

Progress in joint working must go on

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 22, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The decision last week to strip the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) of government funding will inevitably raise concerns that any genuine "development" of the workforce will stall. A plan for how the Department for Education intends to take forward the quango's work is yet to be articulated.

Chance for child health to come of age

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 19, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Last week's health white paper outlined radical reforms to the NHS. So will it improve children's health and partnership working? There are grounds for anxiety and for hope.

Can good services remain standing?

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 21, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Like the suffocating drone of vuvuzelas, cuts continue to dominate the atmosphere in the children's services arena and in public services more generally.

Sector must influence the coalition

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 17, 2010
    • | CYP Now
They say that a week is a long time in politics. Quite. As predicted in these pages for many months, the new Tory Secretary of State Michael Gove has renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as the Department for Education.

Election result prolongs uncertainty

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 10, 2010
    • | CYP Now
At the time of writing -- on the historically uncertain afternoon of Friday 7 May -- the Conservatives were about to enter into negotiations with the Liberal Democrats about helping them to form a government.

Every Child Matters faces biggest test

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 19, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) pledged, in its annual report last week, to assess and build on the progress of Every Child Matters (ECM) for the next five years, as a policy priority for the coming 12 months. It is a good priority to hold, particularly given the uncertainty ahead.

Gove gives joint working a rude jolt

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.

Outstanding challenge for Ofsted

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 1, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted-bashing has been on the rise for several months. Cries of exasperation over the way the children's services inspectorate goes about its business have come in fits and starts from all quarters.

Outreach work is key to Sure Start

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 18, 2010
    • | CYP Now
It is becoming pretty clear that Sure Start will be a key election issue. For months, Labour has claimed that a Conservative government would decimate the service it has created, an accusation consistently denied by the Tories.

Cannabis row leaves us all in a blur

    Opinion
  • Friday, November 27, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Back at the end of October, Professor David Nutt, chair of the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), was sacked after criticising policy on cannabis classification.

Policy into practice - Body image

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2009
    • | CYP Now
THE ISSUE: Teenagers these days face great pressure to look "sexy" and have the right image. This is driven partly by a celebrity culture in which airbrushing and plastic surgery have become increasingly the norm.

It's time to respect children's rights

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
You wait ages for one 20th anniversary, then three come along at once. We've just marked the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1989 Children Act. And this week it is 20 years since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child came into existence.

Policy advisers should not be silenced

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 10, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Home Secretary Alan Johnson's dismissal of David Nutt, chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, is by no means the first time ministers have hidden behind the spurious distinction between advice and policy.

Policy into practice: E. coli

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: The recent outbreak of E. coli at a farm in Surrey has raised attention once again around the importance of safety and hygiene for children and young people.

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.

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