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University access key to success of levelling up

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
It is a decade since university tuition fees were raised from £3,000 to £9,000 per year. It was feared the rise would deter disadvantaged young people from going to university, yet latest figures from Ucas shows record numbers of 18-year-olds from poorer areas applied this year.

Levelling up is about more than better grades

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The government’s levelling-up agenda has the potential to be a master key to unlock opportunity for children and young people and we have been eagerly anticipating the newly published white paper.

Asylum age assessments are unethical

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The Home Office is clearly ramping up the use of age assessments for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, making inflammatory suggestions that predatory men are abusing the system by pretending to be children, and talk of new “scientific” methods of determining age.

Children’s services reform needs brave leaders

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
There’s a lot happening in children’s policy making – not that this gets any airtime in the context of the febrile political atmosphere surrounding Covid and turbulence in government leadership.

Today’s big challenges need collective efforts

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
    • | CYP Now
We start 2022 with a feeling of déjà vu. The emergence of the Omicron variant has derailed the fragile recovery from the pandemic and once again raised the possibility of children’s education being disrupted by school closures and Covid isolation.

Ministers must invest in young people in 2022

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
    • | CYP Now
A year ago, when reflecting on the unimaginable challenges of 2020, I outlined an optimistic view of 2021 based on investment in youth services, support for young people in carving out an independent and prosperous future, and generally restoring trust within this disproportionately affected group.

Justice system needs to recognise impact of care

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Intersectionality is a concept to describe the interconnected nature of social categorisations as they apply to a given individual or group, which create interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

We must do more to support adolescents at risk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021
    • | CYP Now
In October, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (FJO) published a set of papers on the theme of adolescents in care proceedings that incorporated a blend of qualitative and quantitative studies, with one notable headline finding: the number of 10- to 17-year-olds subject to care proceedings rose by 95 per cent between 2011/12 and 2019/20.

Universal credit cut reduces young people’s options

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 28, 2021
    • | CYP Now
We are all too aware that universal credit offers a vital lifeline for vulnerable young people. For many the £20 uplift, introduced last year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, has broadened the horizon in terms of their financial and living opportunities.

Make improving children's wellbeing explicit aim of all work

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Children in the UK are continuing to feel more unhappy with their lives. At The Children’s Society we have just published our 10th annual Good Childhood Report. Yet again we are sounding the alarm over the wellbeing of our children – and yet again we have to wonder, who is listening?

Youth work is integral to rural communities

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
    • | CYP Now
My summer holiday was in Somerset. A village near our campsite had a recently built youth centre attached to the community hall. A sign advertised the one two-hour session for young people each week, on a Thursday evening. But when we went back on the Thursday evening the club was shut and no young people were around.

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