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Riot response requires long-term solutions, not knee-jerk policies

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 22, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The violence across English cities this month triggered its own riot - of condemnation, debate and knee-jerk policy pronouncements. In the days that followed the first outbreak in Tottenham, an exercise in national soul searching took place through the media. Yours truly, for one, did the breakfast TV paper review on Sky News.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hidden costs of payment-by-results

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 5, 2010
    • | CYP Now
We are in an age of austerity where outcomes are critical. So it is difficult to take issue in raw principle with the government's desire to commission more public services on a payment-by-results basis.

Abolition of YJB is difficult to justify

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 18, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The government's decision to scrap the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in last week's "bonfire of the quangos" is bewildering. In recent years, since the welcome demise of New Labour's Respect agenda, the YJB has helped to reduce first-time entrants to the criminal justice system and the youth custody population has come down.

Young people's 'endz' can be dicey territory

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 9, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"There is hatred between people from different areas. Everyone is putting on this hard outer shell. If you put on that outer shell you have to act it out because your friends think that's who you are"... "If you are part of a gang then you're not a very free person and you'll be wanted in another area"... "Fear is one of the worst things that holds people back and controls them".

Editorial: The decline of the male youth worker

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It's hard to imagine nowadays a time when male youth workers outnumbered female youth workers. But back in the early 1980s it was not unusual for youth services to employ twice as many male youth workers as women.

Finally, youth sector receives a boost

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 8, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Given that he spent seven years limbering up for the job in opposition, there was some relief when Tim Loughton was named as a children's minister in the coalition six months ago.

Editorial: Schools must face up to their duty to society

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 27, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The onus on schools to maximise children's wellbeing, as well as their educational attainment, was stepped up a notch last week. Guidance issued by the Department for Children, Schools and Families stated that schools should be the "first line of response" for tackling gang culture.

Stable workforce is key to future of social care

    Other
  • Monday, October 13, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Many local authorities continue to fill vacancies for children's social workers with temporary agency staff in order to tackle ever-increasing caseload levels. The issue is this month thrown into sharp focus at high-profile councils with the biggest challenges.

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