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
- Positive Activities baseline survey
- 31 Oct 2008Findings from a baseline survey for the Empowering Young People Pilots (EYPPs) reveal that 96% of young people had taken part in at least one activity in the four weeks preceding the survey.
- Parents fuel underage drinking
- 31 Oct 2008Many parents and carers are key to facilitating and even overtly encouraging, underage drinking, according to a new government report.
- Young people want more realistic lessons on sex
- 31 Oct 2008Outdoor sex, anal sex and how to achieve female orgasm are all subjects that young people would like to see addressed as part of sex education.
- Charity embraces gaming and social networking to reach more young people
- 30 Oct 2008The Red Cross has created two computer games to introduce young people to its relief work and encourage them to become volunteers.
- Promoting inter-generational understanding
- 30 Oct 2008The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, as part of its wider work on anti-social behaviour and tolerance, has published a report on a project to explore how community relationships and tolerance could be improved between different groups.
- Cash for 'problem' young people
- 29 Oct 2008Twenty areas in England are to receive £13m to set up Intensive Intervention Projects designed to challenge and support at-risk young people and prevent them from turning to a life of anti-social behaviour and petty crime.
- Effectiveness of Children's Trusts questioned
- 29 Oct 2008A report by the Audit Commission into the progress local councils and their partners are making in developing Children's Trusts has found there is little evidence of better outcomes for children and young people resulting from the requirement that local areas in England put arrangements into place to coordinate children’s services.
- Student Leadership Project launched
- 29 Oct 2008A pilot programme aimed at developing the leadership potential of students in higher education has been launched by the government.
- Gifted poor pupils 'need advice'
- 29 Oct 2008A report from the Sutton Trust education charity says that improving careers advice is key to getting more disadvantaged pupils into university.
- Survey reveals teenage concerns
- 28 Oct 2008An annual government survey published yesterday has provided evidence that the intellectual abilities of Britain's 10-to-15-year-olds is declining.
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