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
- 'Harass a hoodie' – Essex police take surveillance to the streets
- 30 May 2008The Guardian reports on a day spent with Essex police accompanying forward intelligence teams (FITs) as part of a Operation Leopard, a surveillance operation designed to combat anti-social behaviour.
- Police seize scores of knives in a search of 4,000 suspects
- 30 May 2008More than 4000 people have been stopped and searched in London in the past two weeks as part of Operation Blunt 2, The Met's latest attempt to address public concern over young people carrying knives.
- Do the facts and figure behind knife crime justify the public's fears?
- 30 May 2008Comment piece looking at the latest facts and issues behind knife crime and what action is being taken by the Government to tackle it.
- Children in care to get personal tutors, homework support and theatre trips
- 29 May 2008The government has published guidance to help local authorities organise personal tutors, homework support and educational trips to the theatre for children in care, backed with £56 million of funding.
- 'Find Your Talent' scheme moves a step closer with ten pilot areas named
- 29 May 2008The government has announced ten areas around the country to pilot the Find your Talent programme to give young people the chance to encounter a range of cultural experiences for five hours a week both in and outside of school.
- A punitive crackdown will never fix this knife crisis
- 29 May 2008Comment piece on knife crime among young people which claims there is an urgent need to reclaim public space for young people, but warns of the dangers of recent measures to crack down on the problem, including stop and search.
- Home Office enlists young people for £3m anti-knife adverts
- 29 May 2008An advertising campaign devised by young people to warn others of the consequences of knife crime is to be launched by the Home Office today.
- v recruits its new youth advisory board
- 29 May 2008v, the youth volunteering organisation, has recruited its new youth advisory board, v20.
- MPA empowers young people in the fight against crime
- 28 May 2008The Metropolitan Police Authority's youth scrutiny report will be presented to the full Authority at its May meeting on 29 May 2008.
- Sex education 'should teach about infertility'
- 28 May 2008The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has said that children and young people should be taught about infertility as well as about avoiding pregnancy.
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