Category Archives: Youth Issues

A day of explosions helped by a year of engineering

Posted on November 5, 2018 by ianchisnall

Every month or week, indeed most days of the year are marked as being a time to focus on particular events or themes. Today and tonight must be one of the few anniversaries or days to mark that almost everyone … Continue reading →

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High Tech sticking plaster is a total waste of money

Posted on November 2, 2018 by ianchisnall

The news that the Government has set aside £500,000 to enable organisations to experiment with technology such as drones and artificial intelligence to try to reduce knife and gun crime seems to be a complete diversion from the need for … Continue reading →

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A fascinating Speech for residents of Sussex and beyond

Posted on October 28, 2018 by ianchisnall

Every few days I check out some of the speeches from Parliament that I am alerted to because of reference to certain key words or certain people speaking. Sometimes some of the speeches act as provocation to raise concerns in … Continue reading →

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The failure to resolve Apprenticeship gaps

Posted on October 23, 2018 by ianchisnall

As I have written before, the Governments public commitment to achieve the level of apprenticeships in the UK that they argue is needed to address the skills gap created by our departure from the EU has hit many snags. In … Continue reading →

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Sure Start and PCCs show the need for political reform

Posted on October 10, 2018 by ianchisnall

On Monday on ‘Start the Week’ on Radio 4 the programme included Naomi Eisenstadt who spoke about the work carried out under the Labour Government between 2007-2010 on the SureStart programme, which was inspired by the American HeadStart Programme. How … Continue reading →

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Today Sussex MPs can prepare for the rest of the week

Posted on October 8, 2018 by ianchisnall

Today is a dark Monday as far as Parliament is concerned. There is no work going on publicly although no doubt behind the scenes there will be lots of activity both in terms of the maintenance of the buildings along … Continue reading →

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The Government must triple Mental Health provision for our children

Posted on September 27, 2018 by ianchisnall

This article discloses that “Currently around one in four children and young people who would benefit from mental health provision get help”. The provision comes through a service referred to as CAMHS (Child and adolescent mental health services) which is partly … Continue reading →

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We need to invest in early years and youth services, not make further cuts

Posted on September 25, 2018 by ianchisnall

The news that all of the County Councils in the UK are preparing to cut a further £1bn from their combined budgets and that most of this will come out from youth and early years services is clearly a deep … Continue reading →

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A great Parliamentary question from Jenny Jones

Posted on September 22, 2018 by ianchisnall

It is always disturbing when the ignorance of our Government is disclosed in such a blatant way as the answer to this question from Jenny Jones provides, one might hope in a Government that claims to be accountable that they … Continue reading →

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Brighton has failed to do something apparently!

Posted on September 7, 2018 by ianchisnall

On Wednesday a debate in the House of Commons took place at the request of the Labour Party on the subject of “Organised Crime: Young Peoples Safety” and at the end of the debate Ben Wallace who is the Minister … Continue reading →

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