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




Leading from the front
17 Dec 2008Interview with Bob Holman, Christian socialist and long-term Labour party member who worked for many years on deprived housing estates in Glasgow.
Unemployment rises for under 25s
17 Dec 2008Labour Market statistics have revealed a sharp rise in the number of people who are unemployed.
Obesity has almost doubled in 14 years
17 Dec 2008Data from the annual Health Survey for England has revealed that obesity has nearly doubled in the last 14 years.
'Aspiration gap' for white poor
16 Dec 2008A Cabinet Office study published today into the aspirations of young people has found that more needs to be done to raise the aspirations of young people, especially boys from isolated white working class communities.
Self-harmers 'include boys too'
16 Dec 2008A survey carried out by the mental health charity Sane has suggested that the idea that self-harm is almost exclusively a problem among girls and young women is wrong, as more than 10 per cent of respondents with a history of self- harm were male.
Independent review calls for changes in the restraint of young people
15 Dec 2008The report, Independent Review of Restraint in Juvenile Secure Settings is published today.
Government plan to raise aspirations of millions of children
15 Dec 2008Cabinet Office minister Liam Byrne is to publish research this week into aspiration and social mobility as part of the forthcoming white paper on social mobility to be published in the spring.
The Children's Plan - one year on
12 Dec 2008To coincide with the first anniversary of the publication of the Children's Plan, the Secretary of State Ed Balls has announced a series of new initiatives to improve child welfare.
White boys on free school meals fall further behind in GCSEs
12 Dec 2008White working class boys fell further behind their classmates in GCSE results this year, according to figures released yesterday by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
NYA completes Annual Monitoring process - 2006-07
12 Dec 2008As part of the process for ensuring good practice within JNC validated higher education programmes for Youth and Community work, the National Youth Agency Workforce development team, carry out annual monitoring of all validated programmes.



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