Matt van Poortvliet

Last November youth unemployment in the UK broke the 1 million barrier. As the recession rumbles on, the job market continues to shrink, and public spending cuts – to youth services, post-16 education and training …

As the dust settled on last summer’s riots in the UK, attention shifted from the young people who had been rioting to the ‘troubled families’ they grew up in. The prime minister pledged that his …

A year ago, the prospect of a ‘knowledge-sharing website’ for funders was met with some scepticism. Do we really need another website? Sure, funders talk about learning and sharing with their peers, but do they …