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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.
- The whole community must be involved in fighting violence
- 4 Jul 2008Lee Jasper's comment piece on today's Guardian website argues that we should not seek to tackle the growing incidence of teenage murders as somehow divorced from the incidence of violence generally within our communities.
- Editorial - There are ways we can tackle knife crime
- 3 Jul 2008An Independent editorial article on street violence which argues that although headline statistics show that knife crime, rather than rising, has remained stable over the past decade they fail to reflect the extent to which the use of knives has increased among the young.
- 18,000 women and children trafficked into UK sex trade
- 3 Jul 2008Report suggesting that up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, are working in brothels across Britain after being smuggled into the country to meet the booming demand for prostitutes according to figures released by the police.
- eYPU Issue 211 - 02 July 2008
- 3 Jul 2008Issue 211 contains details of local authority areas’ priorities – the top two are reducing number of 16-18 not in education, employment or training, and reducing the under-18 conception rate.
- Crackdown on knife carriers leads to 100 charges in London
- 3 Jul 2008Ninety-five per cent of young people caught with knives in London are being charged rather than cautioned, marking a huge increase in the number of young people appearing in court as police try to tackle the growing problem.
- High level of fat and salt in fun park food, says report
- 2 Jul 2008Not one of nearly 400 meals checked at 220 theme parks, wildlife parks, museums and other leisure attractions last year met fully the official guidelines for healthier food expected in schools in term time, according to the Local Government Association.
- Sporting chance
- 2 Jul 2008Feature on Arsenal Football Club's Positive Futures programme, which is using a computer program, The Substance Project Reporting System, to measure the effectiveness of its work.
- EU opinions sought Questionnaire
- 2 Jul 2008A questionnaire for young people about the European Union and the UK.
- Health News Summary - 02 July 2008
- 2 Jul 2008Report calls for youth club plan to cut young people drinking; Pupil sex health clinics defended and local health profiles published.
- Street violence is an infection. I can cure it
- 2 Jul 2008Feature on the CeaseFire initiative in Chicago, which is tackling gang violence by treating it as an epidemic.
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