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Youth work is more vital now than ever

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 22, 2009
    • | CYP Now
This year is shaping up to be the most challenging one for youth services in recent memory. Further cutbacks in public services coupled with nearly one million 16- to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training are going to place a huge strain on youth services just at the time they are most needed.

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.

Asylum policy ignores child welfare

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 10, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's a bit much to expect governments to demonstrate consistency. As of last week, under Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009, UK Border Agency staff have a duty to consider and promote the welfare of children when exercising their functions. That's a welcome and long-anticipated development.

Politicians need to start talking numbers

    Opinion
  • Thursday, November 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The recent conference season has offered a glimpse into how youth services could be structured in the coming years. What is clear is that neither of the two main political parties is making any firm funding commitments if they secure power.

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.

Cuts could enhance joint working

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 6, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The party conference season is over and national politics is destined for a surreal few months in the run-up to the general election. Expect plenty more short-term children's policy announcements - some even eye- catching - as the main parties try to outmanoeuvre each other to strike a popular chord. Politics in Westminster will become increasingly sensationalised and polarised.

Focus of spending must be balanced

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 8, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's official: the UK spends more money on child welfare and education than the average market economy. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report out last week, we spend just over 90,000 per child from birth to 18 compared to an OECD average among 30 member countries of just under 80,000.

Super centres must learn from pioneers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Since reopening in 2002, Bolton Lads & Girls Club has been heralded as the model 21st-century youth club. Boasting a state-of-the-art sports hall, a performing arts studio and many other facilities, it has come to personify the super youth club.

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.

Capture the volunteers while we can

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 2, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Volunteers are the life blood of youth work. According to the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, more than 500,000 volunteers give up their spare time to work with young people, outnumbering the number of paid employees by almost 10 to one.

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.

Youth work must avoid isolationism

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    • | CYP Now
De Montfort University's inquiry on the impact of government policies on youth work has added to the sense of unease expressed in Tony Taylor's open letter, In Defence of Youth Work, that its core principles are under threat.

Youth employment is key to revival

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The outstandingly depressing budget of 2009 has left children's services in limbo, braced for the tightest of public spending squeezes and a likely change of government.

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.

Break down the wall of ignorance

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, April 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's disappointing to hear of examples where the role of youth work is overlooked and under-appreciated. But sadly all too often this still is the case.

Youth workers in hospital fill a void

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
I've become rather hardened to youth work projects. After writing about the youth sector for more than six years, it takes a lot for a project to really stand out from the crowd.

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