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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.

When Fred Goodwin steered clear of risk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
As young people walk into my cottage in north Wales, they see a poster of the ocean with a solitary boat tossing on the waves. On it there are the following words: "A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships were built for." My view of youth work is that it is quintessentially about "pushing the boat out", stretching young people's imagination, competence and experience beyond their comfort zones but not so far as to engender panic (and thereby cause them to retreat back to the safety of where they came from). For me, that is the fundamental skill of the youth worker in dealing with both the mental and physical activities of young people. When executed effectively, young people come to understand and consider risk and make informed choices accordingly.

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.

Small interventions make a big difference

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"My electric wheelchair blew up yesterday ... the bus driver wouldn't put down the ramps for my other wheelchair, and that's difficult to drive because I've got a frozen shoulder ... I've got to go into hospital to have an injection to loosen it up ... oh, and I've probably got to have another operation on my spine ... and last week a pipe burst in my flat and flooded the living room ... and my mum's not well ... "

Teenage fathers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The government launched a campaign earlier this month called Think Fathers to dispel the myth that dads are the invisible parent.

Informal educators or bureaucrats and spies?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"Not another bloody form!" says Patricia when I give her the paperwork required for a girls' project. "Oh no!" groans Jerome in exasperation when handed several pages of monitoring forms at the end of a film project.

Hidden costs of payment-by-results

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 5, 2010
    • | CYP Now
We are in an age of austerity where outcomes are critical. So it is difficult to take issue in raw principle with the government's desire to commission more public services on a payment-by-results basis.

Who would gain from a licence?

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 27, 2010
    • | CYP Now
At the tail end of the summer, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announced that it had no plans to introduce occupational licences, including one for youth work.

Editorial: The decline of the male youth worker

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It's hard to imagine nowadays a time when male youth workers outnumbered female youth workers. But back in the early 1980s it was not unusual for youth services to employ twice as many male youth workers as women.

Finally, youth sector receives a boost

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 8, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Given that he spent seven years limbering up for the job in opposition, there was some relief when Tim Loughton was named as a children's minister in the coalition six months ago.

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