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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.

Policy into practice Separation and divorce

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 8, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: For a child, one of the most difficult things to deal with is your parents splitting up. Having their secure environment shattered by the separation of the two people with whom they have developed the closest of bonds can have a serious impact on a child's emotional wellbeing. For some it creates long-term trauma that can take many years to get over.

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.

Small interventions make a big difference

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"My electric wheelchair blew up yesterday ... the bus driver wouldn't put down the ramps for my other wheelchair, and that's difficult to drive because I've got a frozen shoulder ... I've got to go into hospital to have an injection to loosen it up ... oh, and I've probably got to have another operation on my spine ... and last week a pipe burst in my flat and flooded the living room ... and my mum's not well ... "

Teenage fathers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The government launched a campaign earlier this month called Think Fathers to dispel the myth that dads are the invisible parent.

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