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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.

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.

Youth unemployment: the solutions exist

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 3, 2011
  • | CYP Now
We have seen the headlines screaming at us that one in five young people are jobless, that youth unemployment has hit a "record high" and that the problem is now a "national crisis".

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.

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