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
- From petty crime to small business in one smart move
- 7 May 2008A profile of a social enterprise in Birmingham which trains young people in media and business skills.
- 348,000 ‘persistent truant’ risk
- 7 May 2008More than one in 20 pupils in England is at risk of becoming a persistent truant, according to new figures released by the Department for Children, Skills and Families.
- Row looming over cannabis grading
- 7 May 2008Ministers are expected to ignore the advice of official government advisors, The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) over cannabis grading.
- Minister mentions The National Youth Agency
- 7 May 2008In a written answer to a parliamentary question about which publicly funded charities are working to promote youth volunteering, Minister for the Third Sector Phil Hope cites The National Youth Agency as an OTS strategic partner.
- Parents afraid to allow their children to cycle on roads
- 6 May 2008A new survey by Cycling England has found that parents are preventing their children cycling to school or cycling on the roads because of fears for their safety.
- Store drops Mosquito device in autism row
- 6 May 2008The Co-op is to become the first chain of shops to abandon its use of the Mosquito, the controversial anti-teenager device, on the grounds that it may be having serious effects on people with autism.
- Fifteen local areas to lead pathfinder projects supporting vulnerable families
- 6 May 2008The details of a £16m 'Family Pathfinder' programme have been announced naming 15 local areas where disadvantaged families will be offered intensive help and support.
- MP calls for alcohol ad ban at sports events
- 6 May 2008A Labour MP has called for a ban on alcohol advertising at sporting events in an attempt to combat binge drinking amongst young people.
- UK Youth Parliament at Westminster
- 2 May 2008Three hundred members of the UK Youth Parliament are sitting in the House of Lords today in a move to listen to the voices of children and young people.
- MPs debate young people and knife crime
- 1 May 2008MPs yesterday debated the issue of young people and knife crime in the Commons.
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