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Tackle child poverty to secure future of NHS

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 20, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Following the NHS’s 75th Birthday in July, commentators from across the political spectrum have been contemplating its future – with some concluding that the challenges are so significant that the patient has been admitted to hospital with the crash team on standby.

The cost of leaving

    Opinion
  • Thursday, November 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
It’s hard writing about the end of our 81-year-old charity when the job we set out to achieve is not truly done.

Policy into practice Health and wellbeing

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: Good health and wellbeing are vital if teenagers are to make the transition to adulthood successfully. However, consistent health inequalities combined with peer pressure, an increase in unsupervised time and the constant glorification of excess through the media are taking their toll.

Separation is never easy on the children

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 18, 2008
    • | CYP Now
One of the major changes in the family landscape over the past 20 years has been the rise in the numbers of children and young people growing up in households affected by separation or divorce.

From The Frontline - Drugs don't always work for ADHD sufferers

    Opinion
  • Thursday, January 10, 2008
    • | CYP Now
I've worked with many young people with behavioural problems and hyperactive disorders since I started out in youth work eight years ago. I've lost count of the number of conversations I've had with concerned families about how their child is "out of control" or "needs sorting out" because they are unable to cope with the erratic behaviour.

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.

Let's keep youth centres for young people

    Opinion
  • Friday, February 8, 2008
    • | CYP Now
I have just completed the second leg of my Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship looking at larger youth centres in various cities in the US. Many of these offer facilities beyond our wildest dreams in the UK.

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.

Alternatives to custody need to be found

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2007
    • | CYP Now
In April this year, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice adopted the resolution that national action plans should be formed to reduce the imprisonment of juveniles.

When Fred Goodwin steered clear of risk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
As young people walk into my cottage in north Wales, they see a poster of the ocean with a solitary boat tossing on the waves. On it there are the following words: "A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships were built for." My view of youth work is that it is quintessentially about "pushing the boat out", stretching young people's imagination, competence and experience beyond their comfort zones but not so far as to engender panic (and thereby cause them to retreat back to the safety of where they came from). For me, that is the fundamental skill of the youth worker in dealing with both the mental and physical activities of young people. When executed effectively, young people come to understand and consider risk and make informed choices accordingly.

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