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From the Frontline - The net has boundless opportunities for us

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 30, 2008
    • | CYP Now
One of the most misused words I hear is "empowerment" - often used without consideration to what "power" we are able to hand over. More recently "participation" is the shiny terminology used to express how committed we are to the involvement of young people, but here too I wonder how much thought staff give to how they participate in their field or what opportunities they have to influence policies, projects and so on.

Today's youth is vital to big society

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 28, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Conventional wisdom might hold that youth participation -- any work that gives young people a voice and involves them in shaping services -- is near the front of the queue for cuts in our age of austerity.

Tories would create a youth-friendly society

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 5, 2009
    • | CYP Now
While the government has introduced welcome initiatives, such as the youth opportunity fund and mentors in schools during its 11-year tenure, the sheer number of youth programmes that have come and gone have left many professionals experiencing initiative overload.

Youth work by the freezer cabinet

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2007
    • | CYP Now
I want to describe bumping into young people in Sainsbury's as an occupational hazard. But that makes it sound like a bad thing when it's not.

Outstanding challenge for Ofsted

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 1, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted-bashing has been on the rise for several months. Cries of exasperation over the way the children's services inspectorate goes about its business have come in fits and starts from all quarters.

Young people should be positively engaged

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2007
    • | CYP Now
The government's new Youth Taskforce aims to deliver on the 10-year strategy Aiming High for Young People, which focuses on the expansion of positive activities, creating new places to go and developing local services to support young people.

Policy into practice - Extracurricular activities

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 11, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The issue: Demonstrating soft skills, such as decision making, relationship building, problem solving and teamwork, can really help to boost a young person's employment prospects. Former Health Secretary Alan Milburn's recent report into social mobility says that in order to help narrow the attainment gap between young people from different social backgrounds, schools should provide a range of extracurricular activities.

Spend on the service, not the name

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
When we brought youth workers and personal advisers together to create a new service for young people we stopped for a moment to consider what it should be called.

Generational respect works both ways

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 22, 2009
    • | CYP Now
British society worships at the altar of the young. Lord Heseltine, the former deputy Prime Minister, attracted a great deal of publicity for this statement in a recent speech.

Troubled young need experienced workers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 8, 2008
    • | CYP Now
For many years now, I have advocated the need for a special brand of "advanced skill practitioners" to deal with our most challenging and troubled young people.

Start from the street and work your way up

    Opinion
  • Thursday, July 2, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's pretty much accepted that you learn about youth work first and detached work later, as a specialism. As the debate rages about "the future of youth work" and the state of our values, I'd like to suggest we turn that round. What would it look like if we started with detached youth work?

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