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The NYA News Centre comprises Youth Issues News, updated daily with items sourced from national press, NYA's own press releases and our current enewletters.
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- Launch of controversial child database delayed
- 29 Aug 2008The launch of ContactPoint, the database containing the details of every person under the age of 18 in the country is to be delayed until January because of technical issues.
- Police may be given powers to question child suspects alone
- 29 Aug 2008The Home Office is proposing to allow the police to question children and young people without their parents or other relative being present.
- Take GCSEs bit by bit then have a year’s rest
- 29 Aug 2008Changes to the GCSE qualification have been announced with claims that it will create a modularised system.
- Volunteer work could count towards a degree
- 29 Aug 2008University students could earn credits towards their degree by volunteering with a charity.
- Parents sue over daughter's death
- 29 Aug 2008The parents of a 17 year old girl who died of an undiagnosed heart problem after requesting education staff not to inform her parents of a GP’s visit are planning to sue County Durham Education officials.
- £36m investment in sport goes nationwide
- 29 Aug 2008Sport England today announced a £36 million investment in ‘Sport Unlimited’ - a nationwide initiative to get more children and young people taking part in sports that interest them most outside of school.
- Social injustice cutting life expectancy, UN report says
- 28 Aug 2008A major United Nations report has found that social injustice, from being born into poverty to inadequate education and bad housing, is killing on a grand scale around the world and in the UK.
- UK has 3 million workless households
- 28 Aug 2008Figures from the Office for National Statistics has revealed that there are almost 1.8 million children - one in seven - who live in households in which no one works, with more than 3 million families in total unemployed.
- Young 'dreaming of living abroad'
- 28 Aug 2008A survey of 560 UK students aged from 11 to 18 has found that seven out of 10 young people want to live and work abraod one day, but that most do not have a second language.
- Online debate on impact of youth justice reforms
- 28 Aug 2008The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College London has announced that it has launched an online debate on the impact of the government’s youth justice reforms.
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