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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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- Children still being treated on adult psychiatric wards
- 1 Oct 2008A report from the charity Young Minds and the Children's Commissioner, Al Aynsley-Green, has claimed that children and young people with mental health problems are still being treated on adult psychiatric wards in defiance of a government promise to halt the practice.
- eYPU Issue 224, 01 October 2008
- 1 Oct 2008This issue includes details of a government scheme designed to keep young people safe online and a child poverty map compiled by the Campaign to End Child Poverty.
- FRANK helpline reaches two million milestone
- 1 Oct 2008The FRANK helpline, launched in 2003 to offer confidential, non-judgmental drugs advice and to provide people of all ages with information and support about illegal substances, has received its two millionth phone call.
- 'Favours' campaign launched by vinspired.com
- 30 Sep 2008A new ‘Favours’ campaign has been launched by vinspired.com, the website from youth volunteering organisation, v.
- 'Millions' of UK young in poverty
- 30 Sep 2008A report by the Campaign to End Child Poverty has claimed that millions of children in the UK are living in, or on the brink of, poverty.
- Uncomfortable truths about sofa-surfing
- 30 Sep 2008Homeless charity Shelter is running a project in which young people who have experienced homelessness visit schools, colleges and youth centres to share their experiences in order to help reduce the number of young people who become homeless.
- Male teachers crucial as role models
- 30 Sep 2008New research from the Training and Development Agency for Schools has revealed that male primary school teachers have acted as fundamental role models to one in two men (48 per cent).
- Children allowed to drink at home more likely to develop alcohol problems, study suggests
- 29 Sep 2008A US study claims that drinking alcohol when young can lead to alcohol dependency in later life.
- ‘One-stop shop’ to keep children safe on internet
- 29 Sep 2008The government have announced the launch of a scheme designed to keep children and young people safe online.
- Conservatives would scrap controversial ContactPoint child database
- 29 Sep 2008The Conservatives would scrap the Contact Point database containing details of all children in England if it gained power.
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