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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.
The News Centre also features recent Press Releases and Newsletters.
- Terror code tells teachers to watch pupils
- 8 Oct 2008The government has published new guidance today which sets out how teachers should hold debates in classrooms to prevent extreme views from going nnoticed.
- Muslim youths to advise ministers
- 7 Oct 2008The government is to launch the Young Muslim Advisory Group today.
- Dragon Jones heads skills academy
- 7 Oct 2008Dragons' Den star Peter Jones is to head the National Skills Academy for Enterprise.
- Health News Summary 7 October 2008
- 7 Oct 2008Headlines include: FRANK helpline reaches two million milestone; Brook uncovers public ignorance over teenage pregnancy; and Committee to judge UK's treatment of 13m under-18s.
- Government publishes its findings on youth sector support arrangements
- 6 Oct 2008The Department for Children, Schools and Families has published its findings from the call for evidence on youth sector support arrangements. Key messages include the lack of consensus for a single agency, and a recognition that current arrangements overlap and are confusing.
- UN report criticises Britain's 'demonising' and jailing of children
- 6 Oct 2008UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued a report which claims that too many children are being imprisoned in Britain and demonised as criminals.
- 1 in 3 gratuates not repaying student loans
- 6 Oct 2008A third of students who started university since fees were introduced in 1998 are earning too little to make repayments on their loans.
- Parents 'naïve' about drug use by children
- 6 Oct 2008A survey of parents by drug charity Addaction has revealed that almost all parents are convinced that their children have never taken drugs, in contrast to NHS statistics which state that roughly a quarter of young people aged 11 to 15 admit to having taken drugs.
- Cabinet reshuffle
- 6 Oct 2008Following the government's cabinet reshuffle last week Ed Miliband has been confirmed as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; Liam Byrne as Cabinet Office Minister; Margaret Becket as Minister of State for Housing (attending Cabinet); and Caroline Flint as Minister of State for Europe. Phil Hope has been confirmed as Minister of State for Health and Kevin Brennan has moved to the Cabinet Office as Parliamentary Secretary.
- e-youthaction no. 42, October 2008
- 5 Oct 2008This issue of e-youthaction contains news of v’s new campaign to change the image of volunteering, and the next steps in implementing the recommendations fo the Commission on the Future of Volunteering.
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