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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.

Banning phones will not make children safer

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2024
    • | CYP Now
We are all aware that mobile phones with access to the internet are now used by most children and young people. However, whether children are on or offline they participate in risk-taking behaviours to experiment and to establish their self-identity especially through the adolescent years.

Charter sets out a ‘just’ offer for children

    Opinion
  • Sunday, January 28, 2024
    • | CYP Now
In 2010, the then coalition government announced the introduction of a triple lock for our senior citizens – a commitment to uprate the state pension every year in line with whichever is highest of earnings growth, inflation, or 2.5 per cent.

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.

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.

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