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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.

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