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Teenage girl
Well-being, not 'well good'
Jim Davis, Good Childhood Adviser, shares his thoughts on how important relationships are to young people.
26 April 2011, 3 comments
Jim Davis, Good Childhood Adviser
Church team
young people playing along at a holiday club
Grants help Captain Ketchup, Mrs Tagliatelle and others make childhood better
Claudia Moynihan reports on one of our first projects to receive a grant for a local community project, and that more funds are available.
24 November 2011, 2 comments
Claudia Moynihan, Good Childhood Conversation Co-ordinator
Church team
Kate Palmer
Why I love volunteering
Volunteer Kate Palmer shares her experience of being an Independent Visitor for our Salford Children's Rights programme.
07 June 2011, 2 comments
Kate Palmer, Independent Visitor (volunteer)
Programme staff
Supporting Roma families through multi-agency mediation
After a TV programme raised Roma residents' fears, our SMART programme worked with local agencies to allay the community's fears
10 October 2012, 2 comments
Rosie Tapsfield, Senior Practitioner
Programme staff
Sensational smoothies, rapid rock-climbing, and lots and lots of rain
Our Media Intern Rosie reports on the fun at this year's record-breaking, smoothie-making, karaoke-singing Young Carers Festival.
04 July 2012, 1 comment
Rosie Rutherford, Media Assistant
Media team
Man talking to boy
Are we nearly there yet?
Jim Davis, our Good Childhood Adviser, shares his thoughts on what communities can do to improve the dialogue between young people and adults.
25 March 2011, 1 comment
Jim Davis, Good Childhood Adviser
Church team
Little girls
Celebrating friendships we make at school
Joanna Petty shares her experience of attending a leavers' event for primary school children that focused on friendship.
04 August 2011, 1 comment
Joanna Petty, Facilitator
Church team
Teenage boy
Helping runaway children stay safe - the work of Safe in the City
Elaine Hindal talks about her recent visit to our Safe in the City programme in Manchester that supports young runaways.
11 April 2011, 1 comment
Elaine Hindal, Director of Advocacy and Communication
Leadership team
Katie in dressing room with other placard bearers
My Olympic moment
Katie Evans from our DAP programme writes about what it was like to be in the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
03 August 2012, 1 comment
Katie Evans, Senior Project Worker
Programme staff
Poster created by young people at our SCARPA programme
My work experience week at SCARPA by Rachel Ward
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Ward spent a week doing work experience at our SCARPA programme. Here she writes about what it was like.
28 July 2011, 1 comment
Rachael Ward, Work Experience Volunteer
Programme staff

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What issues affect children and young people today? On our blog, our volunteers, staff, leaders and the young people we work with share their experiences and tackle the issues. Let us know what you think – leave a comment or send us a message about what you find on our blog.

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According to this our family (married, 4 children, dad has full time job, mum cares for children full time) has always hovered above or below the poverty line. RUBBISH! We are not poor. We have never gone cold or hungry.
Real poverty is being hungry and cold and having no essential medicine. UK poverty is not affording the latest electronic game, latest fashion and a new sofa.
By this calculator, "poverty" currently means a bigger income than what we are VERY comfortable on.

BBC news says that "POOR" children turn up to school hungry? Well, I have fed my 4 children very well around the "poverty line" - plenty of good healthy home cooked food, no convenience meals or junk. (the latter costs more than home made healthy food anyway)
"Cold chips in lunch box" means poverty? NO! Takeaway chips cost MORE than a pasta salad or brown bread and cheese sandwich. Hungry children in UK are not suffering poverty, they're suffering poor parenting. Training a generation to be prudent and wise is what's needed, not more breakfast clubs to further absolve parents of their responsibilities.

Use our new calculator to track the shifting poverty line

Great idea to map your run with the icons of London. Well done for finding the mental strength to run the VLM AGAIN, especially now you are an old man!

Mapping my route as I prepare for the London Marathon

Well done Joe, all in a good cause and will be thinking about you on the day.

Mapping my route as I prepare for the London Marathon