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Interview: Defender of rights - Keith Towler, Children's Commissioner for Wales

9 January 2008, Children & Young People Now

The Office of the Children's Commissioner for Wales has come a long way since the late Peter Clarke was charged with its take-off seven years ago.

Feature - Young fathers: Facts and fables

9 January 2008, Children & Young People Now

The UK has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe, yet there are no official statistics on how many young fathers there are. Sue Learner meets three fathers...

Feature - Major Events of 2007: The year in review

12 December 2007, Children & Young People Now

It has been a momentous year for professionals working with children and young people. Ruth Smith takes a look back.

Interview: Safety in the community - Clare Checksfield, chief executive, Crime Concern

12 December 2007, Children & Young People Now

After 20 years as a civil servant, Clare Checksfield says the switch to head up charity Crime Concern was a big move but the right one.

Feature - Funding: The great youth windfall?

12 December 2007, Children & Young People Now

Details of how the sector can get hold of the £679m investment in youth services are slowly emerging. But questions still remain, as Alison Bennett discovers.

Interview: Information is power - Louise Macdonald, chief executive, Young Scot

5 December 2007, Children & Young People Now

Louise Macdonald, is positively evangelical about the importance of information for young people.

Feature - Parenting: The struggle to control our sons

28 November 2007, Children & Young People Now

As the new parenting academy for practitioners starts work, Jon Scott discovers what those on the receiving end of the government's get-tough approach think about compulsory parenting orders and their...

Interview: A source of home truths - Anthony Lawton, chief executive, Centrepoint

28 November 2007, Children & Young People Now

Residing at the helm of national homelessness charity Centrepoint and with a CV that includes teaching and working at the former National Youth Bureau, Anthony Lawton has a formidable pedigree...

Feature - Antisocial behaviour: The council threatened to evict us

21 November 2007, Children & Young People Now

"It was like World War III in the mornings," recalls Elaine Sutcliffe, describing what life was like in 2004 with four children in her small, terraced council home in Rochdale.