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Big society could hit small charities hard

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 1, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Will small and medium-sized youth charities be among the biggest losers of the coalition government? It seems an odd question to ask given the now youth minister Tim Loughton's comments before the election that he would make it a personal priority to find new ways of supporting the voluntary youth sector.

Don't rule out single-faith projects

Successfully reaching out to young people from minority groups is something that concerns all providers of youth services - both statutory and voluntary.

Victory for children is all that matters

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 4, 2010
  • | CYP Now
CYP Now does not support any particular political party. This title's instincts are, and always will be, driven by what best serves the interests of children, young people and their families.

Editorial: A tough decade for the youth justice system

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 20, 2008
  • | CYP Now
The youth justice system is under heightened scrutiny as we approach the tenth anniversary of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, which created the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) alongside local youth offending teams (YOTs).

Strategy must boost youth opportunities

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 28, 2018
  • | CYP Now
The government's long-awaited Civil Society Strategy recognises the "transformational impact that youth services and trained youth workers" can have on disadvantaged young people.

Police show why early help is everyone's duty

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
  • | CYP Now
In a passionate address at the recent National Children and Adult Services Conference, Stuart Gallimore, vice-president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), explained that cuts to his budget in East Sussex means he will have to make decisions about provision he knows don't "make sense" in the long run. He, like other DCSs, faces the dilemma to reduce funding to early help provision to maintain services for children in care and at risk - knowing that doing so could raise the vulnerability of those whose problems are less severe.

Incentives are key to halt school exclusions

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2018
  • | CYP Now
The education committee's report on exclusions and alternative provisions makes it abundantly clear that the current system is failing some children, and that rising exclusion rates are a reflection of this.

Army of childminders can help bridge the gap

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 20, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Social mobility is thankfully all the rage these days, and the free childcare entitlement is a crucial policy to help all children get the best start in life regardless of background.

Youth workers in hospital fill a void

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 5, 2009
  • | CYP Now
I've become rather hardened to youth work projects. After writing about the youth sector for more than six years, it takes a lot for a project to really stand out from the crowd.

Embarrassing custody rates require creative solutions

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 25, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The high number of young people held in youth custody in England and Wales has been a cause of national embarrassment. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has quite rightly raised concerns at the levels of young people held in our youth jails in its recent reports. Despite impressive reductions in recent years, more than 2,000 under-18s were in custody in May.

Childcare needs bold solutions on funding

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Just a few weeks into her premiership, Prime Minister Liz Truss has demonstrated she is not afraid to take bold but difficult decisions. Removing the cap on bankers’ bonuses, scrapping plans for a UK Bill of Rights and pledging to restart fracking for shale gas to name three.

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