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
- Dance moves centre stage for more young people
- 25 Jun 2008The government has set out plans to create stronger links between schools and dance providers with over £100, 000 to enable Youth Dance England to continue their work as part of the PE and Sport Strategy for Young People.
- Action plan to implement Byron recommendations
- 25 Jun 2008The government has published a plan on how it intends to make the internet and video games safer for children and young people based on the recommendations outlined in Dr Tanya Byron's report 'Safer Children in a Digital World'.
- Further £3 million for mentoring programme
- 25 Jun 2008The government has announced a further £3 million for the youth mentoring programme set up to help young people in challenging circumstances realise their potential.
- Approach youth crime with caution
- 25 Jun 2008Comment piece on the focus of the forthcoming youth crime action plan which is expected to see an expanded role for children's trusts and a more 'welfare-orientated' early intervention approach to juvenile justice.
- It's time the great and good met some real scary kids
- 25 Jun 2008Mark Johnson, who is part of Channel 4's Street Weapons Commission, argues that in order to tackle the problem of young people joining gangs and carrying weapons we should start talking to those young people not just about them.
- Island of last resort
- 25 Jun 2008Case study describes the work of an innovative youth detention centre in Sweden where young offenders are integrated into village life in order to recreate a family environment.
- White working class boys least likely to go to university
- 25 Jun 2008A National Audit Office report has claimed that white working class boys are severely under-represented in universities and portrays the English university sector as strongly divided along class lines.
- Permanent school exclusions fall
- 25 Jun 2008The government has released new figures which show that permanent school exclusions have dropped by 7 per cent, although temporary exclusions have risen by 4 per cent.
- Young people bear the olympic torch of tolerance
- 24 Jun 2008Young people from schools across the country are being encouraged to explore their identity, ask what it means to be British and celebrate diversity as part of the first Who Do We Think We Are? Week to help build community cohesion.
- Call for health inequalities push
- 24 Jun 2008A government commissioned report providing a detailed breakdown of public health indicators has shown that the north-south divide in health inequalities is widening.
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