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Chloe Juliette: All children in care deserve to be heard

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Imagine you were me. You grew up in care and now you’re in your early 20s, and you are, once again, standing in front of a room full of strangers who you’ll probably never see again, in the hopes of improving the care system.

The cost of leaving

    Opinion
  • Thursday, November 23, 2023
  • | CYP Now
It’s hard writing about the end of our 81-year-old charity when the job we set out to achieve is not truly done.

We need a joined-up strategy for children

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
  • | CYP Now
The situation facing many children in this country is at crisis point. More families are finding themselves in desperate circumstances, whether that’s due to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis or because early intervention support has been starved of resources due to cuts to children’s social care budgets and funds being diverted towards late interventions.

Asylum age assessments are unethical

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The Home Office is clearly ramping up the use of age assessments for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, making inflammatory suggestions that predatory men are abusing the system by pretending to be children, and talk of new “scientific” methods of determining age.

Autistic children must not be written off

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
  • | CYP Now
The government has admitted that the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is not working. We've spoken to nearly 2,000 young people and parents and they've told us the same – the system is broken.

Help parents tackle risks of radicalisation

    Opinion
  • Thursday, April 20, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Parents have a vital role to play in efforts to tackle radicalisation and extremism among young people being both a source of advice in navigating online risks and an early warning system when problems arise.

Tired remedies won’t end youth knife crime

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2024
  • | CYP Now
There is no doubt that knife crime among young people is rising again, after a dip during the pandemic. In the year ending March 2023, there were 50,500 offences involving a sharp instrument, up by 73 per cent since 2015.