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Only government can stop the dismantling of youth services
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- Monday, July 21, 2014 | CYP Now
The finding from the Cabinet Office survey that total funding for council youth services fell by 22.3 per cent in the two years up to April 2014 will not come as a huge surprise to many in youth work.
DfE must serve children, not our sitcom writers
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | CYP Now
In what ended up as an explosive exit interview, Tim Loughton lifted the lid on the inner workings of the Department for Education at a select committee hearing last week with the department's former ministers.
Youth needs must come ahead of political deeds
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- Tuesday, July 9, 2013 | CYP Now
After many months of casual neglect inside the Department for Education, the government last week revealed the Cabinet Office would take responsibility for youth policy.
No quick fixes in turning around children's services
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- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 | CYP Now
Management standards, specifically how to deal with inadequate leadership, were very much in the news at the end of December.
We need young people ?on board, ‘warts and all'
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- Monday, April 15, 2013 | CYP Now
Seventeen-year-old Paris Brown quit as the country's first youth crime commissioner in Kent just days after her appointment for posting offensive tweets in her younger days. Her posts were stupid and naïve at the very least, but how many people's adolescence, past and present, are completely free of stupidity?
Youth workers could be the missing link in PSHE
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- Monday, May 13, 2013 | CYP Now
Youth work and schools make strange bedfellows. The very essence of youth work as voluntary and non-formal is certainly at odds with the formal, compulsory nature of school.
Time to stop the neglect of long-term foster care
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- Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | CYP Now
Foster carers are responsible for three out of every four looked-after children in the country, and yet their vital role in providing that nurture and support gets barely any attention.
Children need a long-term plan in this spending abyss
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- Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | CYP Now
The country might be out of recession (again), but with the size of the deficit still enormous, public spending shows no sign of returning to growth. In our special report, we examine the long-term challenges and consequences of children's services spend continuing to fall during this decade.
Young people ‘not known' due to systemic neglect
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- Monday, May 28, 2012 | CYP Now
It was the former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld who said during one of the most maligned press statements of the 21st Century that "there are known unknowns".
Openness should nip extremism in the bud
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- 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.
Help prisoners' children to stem future offending
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- Tuesday, December 9, 2014 | CYP Now
The government's latest idea for separating young adult offenders from the bulk of the prison population was unveiled last week.
Education attainment and poverty inextricably linked
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- Monday, June 8, 2015 | CYP Now
The unveiling of the government's legislative priorities offered both reasons to be optimistic and pessimistic over the prospects for children and young people over the coming parliament.
Education for offenders has to make the grade
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- 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.
Youth work institute needs a clearer vision
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- Monday, September 29, 2014 | CYP Now
If ever there was a sector in need of a national body to provide leadership and offer support to those on the front line, then youth work is it.
Labour must produce a clear vision for children
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- 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.
Small grants are the lifeblood of innovation in our services
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- Tuesday, March 15, 2016 | CYP Now
A vital chance to show that youth services work
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- Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | CYP Now
In times of financial austerity, public services must be able to demonstrate that what they do works.
Councils must build on youth housing solutions
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- Monday, May 26, 2014 | CYP Now
The 10 per cent rise in house prices in England reported last week was widely seen as another sign that the economy is recovering from the deepest recession in living memory. Good news for home owners certainly, but soaring property prices are making it harder for young people to not just get on the housing ladder, but branch out into independent living generally.
Residential trips are a priceless commodity
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- Monday, August 4, 2014 | CYP Now
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. It is a maxim that could be applied to most of the services for children and young people today - being able to do more with less is a key requirement for any chief executive, middle manager or frontline practitioner.
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