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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...

Editorial: A lesson in communication for us all

12 November 2007, Andy Hillier, Youth Work Now

As a trainee journalist a decade ago, I was always taught to never accept quotes for articles by letter or fax. People write anodyne quotes, I was told, and you'll...

Viewpoint - Voluntary sector is still the junior partner

9 November 2007, Simon Antrobus, chief executive, Clubs for Young People, Youth Work Now

After many years in the wilderness, it's great youth work is now a key element of the government's 10-year youth strategy.

From the frontline - My liberating experience teaching refugees

9 November 2007, Mike Ridsdale, specialist drugs worker, Cheshire County Council, Youth Work Now

Burma has made headline news for all the wrong reasons recently.

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.