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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.

Poetry unlocks the minds of prisoners

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
  • | CYP Now
Twice in the space of a week I was in Parc Prison in south Wales. The visits were at either end of a week of poetry, lectures and debate, developed and organised through an impressive and creative tie-up between the real Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye and the prison in Bridgend.

Bureaucracy is a brick wall to recruitment

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 27, 2010
  • | CYP Now
I got a text message the other day that is worth repeating almost in full: "Hi h how's you doin, hope your well. I was thinking of probation work or youth work. would you be able to point me in the right direction. the plastering has gone really bad nothing at all. and im getting very stressed out. If you can that would be fab. much love Nathan. take care x"

Foreign language skills have local benefits

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 9, 2008
  • | CYP Now
Thanks to a range of social influences, the world is now a smaller place than ever before. The internet boom, changing migration patterns, a growing global business community and increasing frequency of international travel have increased the value of foreign language skills and engaging with people from different cultures enormously.

Youth work is a social animal, whatever its form

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 9, 2008
  • | CYP Now
For those who feel contemporary youth work has been sold (or sold itself) down the river and capitulated to state control - through targeted action, planned interventions, recordable outcomes and the accreditation of achievement - the work of Flemish academic Filip Coussee is instructive. His recent book, A Century of Youth Work Policy (Gent Academia Press, 2008), suggests that, rather than having lost its way, youth work has historically never found its path.

Policy into practice - Dance programmes

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008
  • | CYP Now
The Issue: With the government on a mission to tackle the nation's obesity crisis, support for programmes that promote active and healthier lifestyles is crucial.

The Myplace fund is a missed opportunity

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
  • | CYP Now
Much has been made about the transformative effect the Myplace fund will have on youth facilities in England, yet little has been said about whether this is truly the best way to spend this money.