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
- Education and Skills Bill receives Royal Assent
- 28 Nov 2008The Education and Skills Bill has received Royal Assent to become the Education and Skills Act 2008.
- Free morning-after pills on offer
- 28 Nov 2008The British Pregnancy Advisory Service is offering free supplies of the morning- after pill to women who want to keep it at home over the Christmas period.
- Most pupils have never visited an art gallery, survey says
- 27 Nov 2008An Ipsos MORI survey has found that 55 per cent of 11 to 16-year-olds in England have never visited an art gallery.
- Happiness tops young people's wish for the future
- 27 Nov 2008A survey carried out by YouthNet into the fears and hopes for the future of more than 1,000 16 to 24-year-olds, as well as their attitudes towards education, housing, family affairs and crime, has found that young people's main ambition is to be happy.
- Help me help you
- 27 Nov 2008Feature on a mentoring programme run by Action for Children, through which care-leavers mentor young people in care.
- Youth Crime Action Plan (Family Support)
- 27 Nov 200883 local authorities are to be provided with a £22 million package during 2009- 11 to implement family intervention projects set out in the Youth Crime Action plan.
- Teenage offenders taking part in restorative justice programme
- 27 Nov 2008First time offenders under 17 are not being prosecuted (except for sexual offences and those involving drugs or weapons) in a pilot scheme being run by the Youth Justice Board in eight areas.
- Anger over disability warning for film
- 27 Nov 2008Disabled people's groups have expressed anger after an award-winning film featuring disabled actors, which is intended to give young people an insight into disability, has been given a 12A certificate for having a 'disability theme.'
- Westminster Hall debate on sex education
- 27 Nov 2008Westminster Hall debate on sex education, in which Jim Knight, the minister for schools and learners, refers to the UK Youth Parliament's research into young people's experience of sex education as 'authoritative'.
- New guidance for consulting with the third sector
- 27 Nov 2008Minister for the third sector Kevin Brennan has published a practical handbook to help public servants open up the consultation process, to reach third sector workers on the ground and to use their experience to influence policy outcomes.
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