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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...

Lifelong learning may not be for everyone

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

The European Union, through its 2000 "Lisbon strategy", aspires to make Europe the most advanced knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. It is an aspiration premised upon the extension...

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...

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...

Editorial: Time for us to honour vocational learning

14 November 2007, Tristan Donovan, Children & Young People Now

In the Queen's Speech last week, the government confirmed it would raise the education leaving age.

Beat the bullies with revitalised playgrounds

7 November 2007, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

It might come as little surprise, but new research shows that boring school playgrounds and playtimes create an environment ripe for negative behaviour and school bullies.

The best education begins in the home

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

A number of issues have converged for me in recent months. There was the Rowntree report on family relationships, and the Sutton Trust report on social mobility - or rather,...

Editorial: Children's services remain colour-blind

31 October 2007, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

Findings of a study about engaging black and minority ethnic (BME) parents in children's services have been published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (see p4). Given government...

Music for learning, intelligence and healing

24 October 2007, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

The importance of the arts to children's development is both well-recognised and longstanding.

Prevention is far better than any cure

17 October 2007, Anne Longfield, Children & Young People Now

A preventive approach to support for children and young people has emerged as a clear priority within the reconfigured Department for Children, Schools and Families.