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Invite young people to the table - they won't bite

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 12, 2011
    • | CYP Now
As I prepare to consult on the Office of the Children's Commissioner's 2012-13 business plan, I'm back from a weekend with the people I consulted first: my children and young people's advisory board, "Amplify".

Workers juggle the personal and the political

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 14, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Times may change, but the challenge for something we call youth work remains the same. Most youth workers know that if it becomes too individualised (just focusing on supporting young people at a personal level) or too instrumentalised (expected to deliver a range of social objectives, such as crime prevention), it ceases to be youth work.

'Moment of madness' is in danger of recurring

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 14, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Basing policy on evidence seems straightforward. But we continue to see politicians speak out on issues with the scantest of evidence and with particular audiences in mind. The most extreme example of late was the coverage about gangs after the summer unrest.

Jobs famine deepens the generational rift

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 14, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Just as youth unemployment hits a record high, fanning fears that Britain's young people could become a "lost generation", the government has scrapped the default retirement age. So more older people are now competing for fewer jobs with the rest of the workforce.

League tables can be a force for good if given more care

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 14, 2011
    • | CYP Now
League tables appear to be flavour of the month. The Department for Education published local authorities' three-year performance averages for children in care against 15 indicators a fortnight ago. And then children's minister Tim Loughton last week signalled his support for league tables for youth services at the Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services annual convention, which would be scored at least in part by young people.

Long-term support cures hopelessness

    Opinion
  • Friday, October 14, 2011
    • | CYP Now
After the long summer, there is much on which to reflect. The riots have focused on the issues that should be front of mind for all of us - helping disadvantaged young people reach their full potential.

Opportunities to engage would stop the rot

    Opinion
  • Friday, September 16, 2011
    • | CYP Now
In the last day of August, former Cabinet minister David Blunkett launched his ideas for a national volunteering programme as a mechanism for responding to the riots earlier the same month, in which young people played a significant part.

Riot response requires long-term solutions, not knee-jerk policies

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 22, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The violence across English cities this month triggered its own riot - of condemnation, debate and knee-jerk policy pronouncements. In the days that followed the first outbreak in Tottenham, an exercise in national soul searching took place through the media. Yours truly, for one, did the breakfast TV paper review on Sky News.

Embarrassing custody rates require creative solutions

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 25, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The high number of young people held in youth custody in England and Wales has been a cause of national embarrassment. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has quite rightly raised concerns at the levels of young people held in our youth jails in its recent reports. Despite impressive reductions in recent years, more than 2,000 under-18s were in custody in May.

Youth Work Now: Youth work provides a sanctuary

    Opinion
  • Friday, June 24, 2011
    • | CYP Now
With all the discussion in youth work circles about a much tougher evaluation of outcomes, payment by results and mechanisms for using social impact bonds, I wonder if anyone has given a thought to one of the lesser stated roles of youth work: sanctuary.

Chop the managers and risk decapitating the youth service

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, May 18, 2011
    • | CYP Now
If you take the head off, the rest of the organism will fail. There sits the central nervous system, the main sensory faculties without which the body cannot function. Incidentally, you also deprive the creature of memory, in humans a vital function if we are to learn the lessons of history.

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