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Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.

Queen’s Speech failed most vulnerable families

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Children and young people in the UK are growing up in some of the hardest times in recent history, where inflation rates are at a 40-year high and the cost of living crisis is hitting every household. Low-income families, who were already struggling, are faring the worst.

Workforce shortage is threat to care reforms

    Opinion
  • Thursday, February 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
The government's Care Review response, Stable Homes, Built on Love, sets ambitious targets for improving children's outcomes, testing new approaches to early help, and boosting professional standards in child protection work.

Make schools part of wider support system

    Opinion
  • Thursday, June 22, 2023
    • | CYP Now
You can understand if school leaders feel a little put upon. Not content with being tasked to prepare the next generation for the challenges of a rapidly changing world, policymakers are increasingly turning to schools to solve some of society's wider problems.

Early intervention transcends early years

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 13, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The national focus on early intervention has put a spotlight on the early years. But with many conflating the two ideas, we run the risk of neglecting the need to develop a preventative mindset in our work with school-age children.

Build communities to tackle knife crime

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Over the past few weeks YMCA has been approached by a number of different media outlets asking the same question: Is the rise in knife crime among young people due to youth service cuts?

New Prime Minister’s key priorities for children

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Children’s happiness was already at a deeply worrying 10-year low when lockdown hit, according to our Good Childhood research, isolating them from friends, family and vital support. Now, families face another major shock as soaring inflation looks set to plunge more households and children into poverty. Yes, we are facing a cost-of-living crisis – but we are also facing a crisis in our children’s wellbeing.

Solutions lie in truly listening to children’s views

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Gathering and considering the wishes and feelings of a child or young person, their parents and wider family before any serious decision is taken about them is commonplace in children’s services teams and a feature of much outstanding direct work with children.

Invite young people to the table - they won't bite

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 12, 2011
    • | CYP Now
As I prepare to consult on the Office of the Children's Commissioner's 2012-13 business plan, I'm back from a weekend with the people I consulted first: my children and young people's advisory board, "Amplify".

Will new ministers have any new ideas?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018
    • | CYP Now
It is still too early to offer any well-informed predictions of what to expect from new Education Secretary Damian Hinds and his ministers at the Department for Education.

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.

We need a national strategy to uphold children’s rights

    Opinion
  • Thursday, November 23, 2023
    • | CYP Now
In May, Children England published the Vision for a ChildFair State, the culmination of four years’ work with a group of young people to define the central pillars of support that should be available to every child in every community.

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