Youth Issues News
Each weekday The NYA monitors the national press, government press releases, Hansard, parliamentary websites and specialist publications for news and information about young people and youth policy.
This intelligence feeds the work of the Policy, Information and Research team. National press scanned include the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Times, Independent, Times Educational Supplement, and Voice. Comments and feedback welcome - email: Jo Poultney
- Young people to shine at festival
- 30 Jun 2008Nearly 2,500 schools are set to take part in England's first national schools festival designed to showcase talent in young people this week.
- Behaviour of pop stars 'eroding children's moral values'
- 30 Jun 2008The majority of parents are concerned about the values children learn from those around them, according to a survey carried out by GfK NOP as part of a two year inquiry by the Children's Society into the state of modern childhood.
- State will take action against parents who can't control their children
- 27 Jun 2008The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has called for a huge expansion of state intervention in family life as a way of preventing young people drifting into antisocial behaviour and crime.
- Government sets out its vision for world-class public services
- 27 Jun 2008The next phase of public service reforms has been announced by the government.
- Latest findings from Citizenship Survey
- 27 Jun 2008Headline findings from the latest Citizenship Survey for April 2007-March 2008 reveal that over half of the people surveyed (56 per cent) feel that there is now more racial prejudice in Britain than five years ago.
- Unison calls for multi-agency forums to tackle gun and knife crime
- 27 Jun 2008Delegates at the union’s national conference have called for multi-agency teams to be set up to tackle the root causes of gun and knife crime among young people.
- Child safety laws mean adults 'scared to approach children'
- 26 Jun 2008A report by the thinktank Civitas has claimed that adults are afraid to interact with other people's children because they fear being labelled a paedophile.
- Community engagement and community cohesion
- 26 Jun 2008A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explores the challenges to be addressed if government policies to promote community engagement are to be genuinely inclusive of new communities as well as more established communities.
- More money for sexual health services in further education settings
- 26 Jun 2008Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo has announced that the government is to provide an additional £6 million over the next three years to further develop sexual health services in further education settings, as part of a wider drive to tackle unplanned teenage pregnancies and abortions among young women.
- New technology and old fashioned values
- 25 Jun 2008A national survey of 1,000 UK children by 4Children has revealed that despite spending long hours on computers and mobile phones, children have strong social consciences and respect traditional values as much as any previous generation.
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