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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

| CYP Now

Construction of an OnSide youth zone, refurbishment of a youth centre and involvement of young people in a regeneration project are just some of the recipients of the government's flagship funding programme.

Youth services cuts exceed £1bn in a decade

Friday, December 17, 2021

| CYP Now

Cuts to local authority youth services have exceeded £1bn over the past 10 years, analysis of government figures shows.

Ofsted suspends registration of four outdoor activity centres

Friday, October 29, 2021

| CYP Now

Ofsted has suspended childcare provision at four outdoor activity centres amid “serious safeguarding issues”.

Shout Out UK awarded youth engagement grant

Friday, October 15, 2021

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Shout Out UK has been named as the latest recipient of the government’s youth engagement grant aimed at supporting young people to develop policy affecting them.

Green light for South West's first Youth Zone

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

| CYP Now

Bristol City Council has given the go ahead for a new youth centre to be built on underdeveloped land in the south of the city.

Charities issue stark warning over ‘decimation of youth services’

Thursday, September 16, 2021

| CYP Now

The National Youth Agency and YMCA have warned that a failure to invest immediately in youth services will “decimate” the sector and leave “a generation of young people without opportunities to thrive”.

Interview: Mark Gifford, National Citizen Service chief executive

Other

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes speaks to the chief executive of the National Citizen Service.

NYA guidance offers blueprint to revitalise youth work services

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

| CYP Now

National Youth Agency sets out what sufficient, high-quality youth services should look like, with emphasis on securing open-access provision, making greater use of digital support and investing more in the workforce.

Interview – Ndidi Okezie, chief executive, UK Youth

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes speaks to the UK Youth chief executive.

‘Lost Covid generation’ must be prevented

Opinion

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

| CYP Now

With young people back in education and ministers pushing for employees to return to the office, it could be easy to get lulled into a sense that life is returning to normal.

Child Criminal Exploitation – Tackling Criminal Exploitation

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Awareness of child criminal exploitation has increased alongside efforts to tackle the problem. Tom de Castella explores the challenges and speaks to some of the projects leading the way

How I Got Here: Sharon Lovell, National Youth Advocacy Service

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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Sharon Lovell, National executive director (Wales), National Youth Advocacy Service, on her career landmarks.

Violence and youth work cuts

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

Research shows link between rise in youth crime and cuts in youth provision, with experts calling for funding.

Secret to independence success

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| CYP Now

A project supporting young migrants has shared learning on how to become an independent charity.

Mutual delivers benefits for young people at London council

Best Practice

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Mutual is owned by employees and young people.

Youth Work: Special Report

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

A decade of deep funding cuts has seen a huge reduction in provision for young people. But increasing recognition of the valuable role played by youth workers could signal a change in fortunes for the sector.

Youth Work in Schools in Wales – full report

Research

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

In 2013, NYA led a national commission on the role of youth work in a school setting. Its recommendations were picked up by the children’s commissioner for England who recently called for schools to be open at evenings, weekends and holidays, with youth workers in schools.

Youth Work: Policy context

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

The last decade was not good for youth work. The statistics are well known: since 2010, hundreds of youth clubs have been closed; thousands of youth work jobs lost; and more than 100,000 places for young people scrapped – the result of a 75 per cent reduction in council youth work budgets.

Statutory guidance review: youth bodies set out the case for change

Thursday, January 2, 2020

| CYP Now

Youth organisations call for the introduction of strengthened statutory duties, improved training standards and investment in open access youth work to breathe new life into local authority services for young people.

General election 2019: Youth work

Other

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

| CYP Now

High Court backs government use of child spies

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

| CYP Now

Using children as informants in criminal investigations has been ruled as legal by the High Court.

Council drops plan for youth services mutual

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

| CYP Now

A plan to create a mutual to run youth services at a local authority in the north east of England have been dropped.

NYA calls for civil society strategy to include 'youth covenant'

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

| CYP Now

A 'youth covenant' setting out a cross-government commitment to young people should be created as part of the civil society strategy, the National Youth Agency (NYA) has said.

MPs launch inquiry into role of youth work