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Tory policy still needs some improvements

1 October 2008, Ravi Chandiramani, Children & Young People Now

There is a very real prospect that the next government will be a Conservative one. So it's encouraging that apart from the small matter of a global economic crisis, issues...

From the Frontline - Uniforms allow the person to shine through

15 September 2008, Shane Jefferson, Youth Work Now

Very few youth organisations nowadays require young people to wear uniforms. Organisations such as ourselves (St John Ambulance), the Scouts, the Guides and a handful of others stand apart because...

Editorial: Putting the fun into funded projects

15 September 2008, Andy Hillier, editor, Youth Work Now,andy.hillier@haymarket.com, Youth Work Now

Youth services across the UK went into overdrive this summer. A whole of host of projects were set up, ranging from traditional sport schemes and youth festivals to more targeted...

From the Frontline - The net has boundless opportunities for us

1 August 2008, Mike Amos-Simpson, Youth Work Now

One of the most misused words I hear is "empowerment" - often used without consideration to what "power" we are able to hand over. More recently "participation" is the shiny...

A cabbie's diatribe on disaffected youth

9 July 2008, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

We had a good chat about it - youth crime and youth provision are, as always, high on the political agenda.

From the Frontline - The media revolution needs youth workers

2 July 2008, Nic Millington, chief executive of The Rural Media Company inHereford, www.ruralmedia.co.uk, Youth Work Now

Virtually every month a new piece of communications technology, aimed squarely at the youth market, is launched.

Sometimes youth work just has to be there

2 July 2008, Nick Wilkie, chief executive of London Youth, Youth Work Now

I recently heard a story about a church in Massachusetts.

Editorial: The decline of the male youth worker

2 July 2008, Andy Hillier, Youth Work Now

It's hard to imagine nowadays a time when male youth workers outnumbered female youth workers. But back in the early 1980s it was not unusual for youth services to employ...

Are youth workers prepared for bereavement?

25 June 2008, Howard Williamson, Children & Young People Now

As we read almost weekly of the death of another young person through violent crime, it is perhaps easy to forget that young people die, albeit fairly rarely, from a...