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The invisibility of girls and young women affected by serious violence and exploitation needs to end

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

| CYP Now

In public, media and political dialogue, serious violence is often solely framed around knife crime and street violence between predominantly young men. This framing excludes affected girls and young women and leaves thousands of them seriously impacted by violence and criminal or sexual exploitation, and that risk is growing.

Be Our Guarantor: an estranged student's call to universities

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Monday, March 6, 2023

| CYP Now

I knew nothing about rent guarantors before starting university at Salford in 2017.

We need to help young people prepare for the long haul

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Thursday, October 1, 2020

| CYP Now

Rules set by adults have always seemed confusing and contradictory to the young, but just imagine how many must be feeling now.

Regrades, masks and returning to school – who’s asking the students?

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Friday, August 28, 2020

| CYP Now

‘Algorithms’ ‘U-turn’ and ‘sorry’ are just a few of the words associated with the exam re-grading debate as the airwaves hummed with analysis and questions.

Kickstart needs a coaching top-up to help those most in need

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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

| CYP Now

Is it the calm before the storm? Last week’s labour market statistics showed a rise in youth unemployment of 47,000.

Real opportunity or just a stop-gap?

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Thursday, July 9, 2020

| CYP Now

800,000 young people will leave education this year and I don’t envy them.

Why we can’t zoom our way out of the C19 crisis

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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

| CYP Now

In common with many organisations Groundwork has been busily adapting the way it delivers services and support for young people to mitigate the impacts of lockdown.

Youth voice on Covid – “Talk with us not about us”

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

| CYP Now

The government’s daily briefing is now taking questions from the public, however, the website link informs anyone under 18 that “you cannot ask a question...because you’re not old enough”.

Voluntary sector organisations are rising to the challenges of coronavirus - they need government support

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

| CYP Now

The coronavirus pandemic has transformed our country in a way that was unimaginable mere weeks ago.

#switchtoremote: reflections on the first few weeks of remote working in lockdown

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

| CYP Now

Like many organisations, Redthread has had to rethink its delivery in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Our eight Youth Violence Intervention Programme teams have switched to remote working, meaning the service looks very different to how it did even a month ago.

Surviving the shutdown – who will be there to help young people?

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Friday, March 27, 2020

| CYP Now

If there are any positives to be found in the current situation it’s that many of us will never take the work of teachers for granted again. Keeping young and enquiring minds busy while juggling the rest of your day’s work – and remember teachers also have plenty of ‘work’ to do besides running lessons – can be physically and mentally draining.

The power of youth, from silent service to youth voice leadership

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

| CYP Now

At the start of its seventh and final year, the Step Up To Serve's #iwill campaign has launched a "Power of Youth Challenge 2020" to organisations, decision makers and young people to come together and get involved in a year-long set of activities that will champion youth voice, action and leadership.

Votes at 16: parked or paused?

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Monday, February 3, 2020

| CYP Now

‘Votes at 16’ no longer commands the support of a majority of MPs in Parliament.

Muppets and manifestos

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Friday, November 29, 2019

| CYP Now

For some families it’s Home Alone, for others The Polar Express. For me you still can’t beat A Christmas Carol as the film that turns the sofa into a place to sink into the season. Odd really given Dickens’ original intent was to produce a tract excoriating the capitalist system for its maltreatment of children, a polemic against ignorance and want wrapped in a tale about personal responsibility and redemption. Not that you’d know that from watching the Muppets’ version.

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The invisibility of girls and young women affected by serious violence and exploitation needs to end

Be Our Guarantor: an estranged student's call to universities

We need to help young people prepare for the long haul

Regrades, masks and returning to school – who’s asking the students?

Kickstart needs a coaching top-up to help those most in need

Real opportunity or just a stop-gap?

Why we can’t zoom our way out of the C19 crisis

Youth voice on Covid – “Talk with us not about us”

Voluntary sector organisations are rising to the challenges of coronavirus - they need government support

#switchtoremote: reflections on the first few weeks of remote working in lockdown

Surviving the shutdown – who will be there to help young people?

The power of youth, from silent service to youth voice leadership

Votes at 16: parked or paused?

Muppets and manifestos

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