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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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