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Christmas brings out the child in all of us

12 December 2007, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

For many years our last evening at the youth club before shutting down for Christmas, was a childish seasonal celebration. Somehow we always got enough money together to buy lots...

Editorial: Commercialism is damaging childhood

12 December 2007, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

With the festive season upon us, and the avalanche of consumerism it brings, it is timely that the government's 10-year Children's Plan should include an inquiry into the impact of...

Nostalgic reunion for the 'Milltown boys'

5 December 2007, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

At the end of September I hosted a party for the "Milltown boys", who were the subject of my 1970s study of a group of boys on a south Wales...

Young people should be positively engaged

28 November 2007, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People 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...

Editorial: Discs blunder ups pressure on ContactPoint

28 November 2007, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

Fear can be very contagious. The "missing discs" debacle at HM Revenue & Customs has intensified security concerns about ContactPoint, the £224m database that will hold details of every child...

Reckless behaviour may not be all it seems

21 November 2007, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

One of the recurrent challenges of working with the young is how to deal with what may genuinely be inadvertent damage. Even what may look like wanton destruction may not...

Editorial: How Takeover Day can go beyond tokenism

21 November 2007, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

This Friday (23 November) more than 5,000 children and young people will have a say in the running of more than 400 organisations for the children's commissioner for England's 11...

Time to hear young people's voices again

14 November 2007, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

One of Gordon Brown's earliest announcements upon becoming Prime Minister was that his government would examine the idea of young people voting at 16 and that the UK Youth Parliament...

Reflections on a life of radical thinking

7 November 2007, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

For people who studied social sciences in the 1970s, the Penguin book Knuckle Sandwich is almost certainly etched in their memory.

How chewing gum made its mark on history

24 October 2007, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

One of the very first pieces I wrote for Young People Now back in 2003, but which remained unpublished, was called 'One Half Piece of Chewing Gum'.