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




Commerce in schools put under spotlight
19 May 2008The inquiry commissioned by the government into the impact of the commercial world on children is to investigate the government's own policies of encouraging schools to link up to businesses and setting up sponsored academies.
Labour's £3bn war on youth crime has failed
19 May 2008A report by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies to be published this week, compares the amount of public money spent by ministers with its impact on youth crime levels.
Parents to get power to call in school inspectors
19 May 2008Ofsted is to outline new proposals for reform of the school inspection system today.
£6m alcohol campaign launched by government
19 May 2008The government is to launch its biggest ever alcohol awareness campaign today amid concerns that too many people are unwittingly drinking too much.
The teen go-betweens
16 May 2008Young people are often seen as the cause of antisocial behaviour in communities.
Seventy per cent of young people say they are tarred with negative image
16 May 2008Seventy per cent of young people say they are negatively perceived by the public despite the fact that 44 per cent say they do positive things for their communities and 57 per cent give or raise money for charities.
Watchdog criticised for asking pupils 'intrusive' questions
16 May 2008A major Ofsted survey asking more than 110,000 pupils about their home lives has been criticised for using innapropriate questions.
Offences by girls up by 25 per cent as crimes by boys fall slightly
16 May 2008The Times examines youth crime and the statistics showing a rise in offences committed by young women following yesterday's report released by The Youth Justice Board.
Comment – Weapons we can't handle
16 May 2008Guardian comment piece by the broadcaster Mark Lawson on the rise in knife related crime among young people in the UK.
Crimestoppers uses Facebook to fight crime
16 May 2008To reach wider audiences with its crime-fighting message, the charity Crimestoppers has set up a page on the social networking site, Facebook.



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