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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.
- Reach moves into final stages of the search for role models for black young men
- 18 Nov 2008The search for candidates for a national black role model programme to help raise the aspirations and attainment of young black men has reached its final stages with 51 candidates being interviewed as part of the wider work of the REACH programme.
- Plans to boost child protection
- 18 Nov 2008The government is expected to announce that every area of England is to be covered by a Children's Trust Board, following the failure of social workers in Haringey to prevent the abuse and death of Baby P.
- Inquiry into knife crime
- 18 Nov 2008The Home Affairs Committee has launched its inquiry into knife crime at a seminar focusing on knife crime in London.
- Making progress on children's mental health
- 18 Nov 2008YoungMinds Roger Catchpole welcomes the progress on children's mental health highlighted in the CAMHS review published today, but warns that more needs to be done to help those with mental health problems.
- DCSF commences procurement exercise for a Young Inspector Service
- 17 Nov 2008The Department for Children Schools and Families has commenced a procurement exercise to appoint a suitably qualified third sector organisation to work with Local Authority areas to develop and implement the pilots.
- Britain in danger of demonising its children, claims Barnardo's
- 17 Nov 2008A YouGov poll of 2,000 adults commissioned by Barnardo's has found that half of adults are fundamentally prejudiced against the current generation of children and critical of their behaviour.
- The voice of youth
- 17 Nov 2008Article launches this year's National Youth Week which runs from 15 to 21 November.
- Children bullied over faith, survey finds
- 17 Nov 2008A survey by the charity Beatbullying and published to mark the start of anti- bullying week, has found that one in four children have been bullied because of their faith.
- Academies accused of covert selection as number of poorer pupils falls
- 14 Nov 2008An evaluation of academies claims that the proportion of pupils that they take from the poorest homes has shrunk and that more able pupils are being selected in order to improve results.
- 'Coasting' schools must be ambitious, says government
- 14 Nov 2008The Government has claimed that hundreds of schools are 'coasting' on average results, are not stretching more able pupils and sometimes not supporting pupils facing difficulties.
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