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Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.

Lack of access, not technology, is enemy of play

    Opinion
  • Thursday, June 22, 2023
  • | CYP Now
I often hear that “youngsters nowadays have had their imaginations ruined by technology – when I was young, all we needed was a Raleigh Chopper, a Rubik's cube, roller skates, the street”. I don't believe that children today have less appetite to play – it's a lack of opportunities to access play that is the key issue.

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