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Give youth work freedom to deliver

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
A campaign is brewing to tackle the feeling that policymakers are strangling the life out of youth work. It has been sparked by an open letter by social commentator Tony Taylor, In Defence of Youth Work.

A stab in the back for Connexions

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 13, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Local Government Association (LGA) last week issued research purporting to show the overwhelming majority of young people find formal careers advice only "a little bit" or "not at all" helpful.

Guidance is vital to turn youth policy into action

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 9, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Nine months after its conception last March, the government's youth policy arrived into this world six days before Christmas, not exactly kicking and screaming and without much fanfare. Positive for Youth was born after what seemed an interminable but thoroughgoing consultation with the youth sector and young people alike.

Help small charities prove their worth

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 29, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Teens and Toddlers programme featured this week has managed to build up a solid evidence base of its effectiveness in helping young people, giving it the opportunity to expand across the UK.

Gove gives joint working a rude jolt

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Michael Gove's revelation to CYP Now that a Conservative government will remove obligations on local authorities to have children's trusts in place will come as a thunderbolt for children's services, particularly in their efforts to safeguard children and enable them to thrive.

Openness should nip extremism in the bud

    Other
  • Tuesday, June 25, 2013
    • | CYP Now
It is just over a month since the murder of Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby shocked the country, and then triggered a spate of reprisals. In typically strident-sounding fashion, the government set up a "taskforce" - the crisis-management response tool of choice for politicians these days.

Youth work should be in the limelight

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 23, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The Benefits of Youth Work initiative, targeted at local decision-makers and purse-string holders to persuade them of youth work's value, is sorely needed.

Make weekends fun for the young

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 7, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's official: young people overwhelmingly believe more activities should be available for them at the weekends - 79 per cent - and 65 per cent say they would attend a Friday or Saturday night youth project regularly. What's more, 69 per cent of youth workers say increasing the number of weekend projects would be possible.

Sector must influence the coalition

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 17, 2010
    • | CYP Now
They say that a week is a long time in politics. Quite. As predicted in these pages for many months, the new Tory Secretary of State Michael Gove has renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as the Department for Education.

Education for offenders has to make the grade

    Other
  • Tuesday, February 19, 2013
    • | CYP Now
The government's desire to put education at the centre of youth custody and tackle the stubbornly high reoffending rates - still in excess of 70 per cent - is, on the face of it, welcome.

Labour must produce a clear vision for children

    Other
  • Tuesday, March 18, 2014
    • | CYP Now
After a slow start, Labour seems to be finding its feet in opposition. But with a general election a little over a year away, time is running out for the party to produce a coherent policy vision for children, young people and families.

Neet strategy is not fit for purpose

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 8, 2010
    • | CYP Now
At last week's Generation Neet debate, CYP Now aimed boldly to identify "how to solve the problem of young people not in education, employment of training (Neet)" via a panel of politicians, experts and young people. Of course, we didn't actually solve the problem.

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