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Why should the young have to conform?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007
  • | CYP Now
I have just read Helen Reddington's book The Lost Women of Rock Music, which traces what happened to the influx of female musicians who entered the business in the 1970s and early 80s.

Inspecting home educators is fair

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 11, 2009
  • | CYP Now
Graham Badman's review of home education has created an unrivalled storm of protest on CYP Now's online discussion forums in the past couple of months. Scores of parents are livid at his proposals.

Policy into practice: Back-to-school costs

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The issue: More than half of parents in the UK cannot afford the costs of sending their children back to school, according to a survey conducted by Save the Children and Family Action.

The joys of sex should be explained

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 30, 2009
  • | CYP Now
Earlier this year, the government confirmed its intention to make sex education compulsory in schools as part of the introduction of personal, social and health education to the National Curriculum.

Prevention is far better than any cure

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
  • | CYP Now
A preventive approach to support for children and young people has emerged as a clear priority within the reconfigured Department for Children, Schools and Families.

School trips are unlucky victim of efficiency drives

    Opinion
  • Friday, May 13, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The squeeze is on for anything that does not appear immediately important. For colleges, enrichment funding is being slashed. This is funding that has contributed to a wide range of important discretionary activity, from sport to family education.

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.

Education is the antidote to racism

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 27, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The bear-baiting of British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin in his recent appearance on Question Time did nothing to advance race relations in our country.

It's time to respect children's rights

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 17, 2009
  • | CYP Now
You wait ages for one 20th anniversary, then three come along at once. We've just marked the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1989 Children Act. And this week it is 20 years since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child came into existence.

The next commissioner needs bite

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
  • | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has fired the starting gun to recruit a children's commissioner for England to succeed Sir Al Aynsley-Green early next year.

Policy into practice Sexual bullying

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 20, 2009
  • | CYP Now
THE ISSUE Tackling bullying is raised consistently as a key priority when children and young people are asked for their views. There is little doubt that bullying has risen up the political agenda in recent times.

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