Activities for teenagers – who’s responsible?
Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Posted in Discussion topics | No Comments »I had another look today at the 2008-9 "Place" survey of Swindon residents (thanks to Karen in Broad Green for sending this). The single issue that residents felt needed the most improvement was activities for teenagers. I suspect that this is ...
Successful New Year’s Resolutions
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Discussion topics, News | No Comments »Setting goals is a great discipline to introduce to your life. The New Year is as good a time as any, although "new year's resolutions" rarely seem to be successful. In this post, Susie shares her experience and recipe for ...
New approaches for engaging young people
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in Discussion topics, News | No Comments »It's great that there's so much focus being put on creating positive options for young people, and I hope that some of the new ideas and initiatives work. I was interested to read a couple of stories in the last ...
Funding to prevent anti-social behaviour: a nightmare
Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Discussion topics | No Comments »Or, as "Children & Young People Now" put it, "a dog's breakfast"! A recent report by the Audit Commission highlighted the bureaucracy and inefficiency of public funding for schemes to address anti-social behaviour. Some interesting statistics included: A ...
New well-being survey: Britain fares poorly
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Discussion topics | No Comments »I was interested to read the recent New Economics Foundation survey which interviewed 40,000 people across Europe in an attempt to produce a new set of "National Accounts of Well-Being". David Cameron and others have called for a broader measure for how well ...
White working-class boys less likely to achieve potential?
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Discussion topics | No Comments »It's interesting to watch the debate caused by a government study into aspirations among young people: http://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/869689/White-working-class-boys-less-likely-achieve-potential/ It appears that parents now have higher aspirations for their daughters than their sons, and white working class boys from ex-industrial areas have the ...
“Britain is demonising children”
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in Discussion topics, News | No Comments »I just received details of Barnado's Children in Trouble campaign, based on a recent survey of British public, which suggests (among other things) that: Just under half (49%) of people believe that children are increasingly a danger to ...
Experiential Learning – 13 times more effective than classroom teaching
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in Discussion topics | No Comments »"Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand" (Confucius) I had a great meeting this week with Paul Capper from Mobius Development, which has been running a range of courses for ...