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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...

Take better care of the UK's young carers

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

Support for carers has come under the spotlight lately. A Standing Commission on Carers was established in September, reporting to the Health Secretary, while a renewed bout of publicity will...

Editorial: Child protection inadequacies are still rife

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

The National Children's Bureau's study on safeguarding arrangements between hospitals and children's social services should alarm anyone involved in child protection (news, p4).

Let's support the parents with disabilities

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

There are an increasing number of families in the UK where the parents have learning difficulties. However, despite government commitments in England and Scotland to support parents with learning disabilities...

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...

Editorial: A lesson in the need for emotional wellbeing

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

The RSA in London was last week the scene of a fiery debate co-hosted by CYP Now and Channel 4 about today's teenagers.

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.

In my view: A father's forgotten escape from poverty

19 September 2007, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

The penultimate sentence of the follow-up book on the Milltown Boys - my 1980s study of disadvantaged young people on a Cardiff council estate - reads: "Like some of the...

Opinion: Politicians have woken up to needs of young

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

When Haymarket's first Young People Now was published in January 2003, my column was concerned with the huge gulf between the rhetoric and reality of government youth policy.