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




Public 'cut off' by crime process
18 Jun 2008In a review for the Cabinet Office, crime and communities adviser Louise Casey has claimed that criminals' punishment needs to be much more "visible" to restore public confidence in the justice system.
How to fight crime
18 Jun 2008A new report from Crime Concern has set out a wish list of six ways to cut crime and create safer neighbourhoods.
White working-class boys risk university lockout
18 Jun 2008A research study published by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, into the gender gap in higher education has found that white young people are significantly less likely to go to university than their peers from ethnic minority groups, even when they have the same qualifications at A level.
UK Children most likely to try cannabis
18 Jun 2008A report by the World Health Organisation has claimed that young people in the UK are more likely to drink, smoke and to have tried cannabis than in many other western countries.
v challenges MPs to volunteer alongside young people
18 Jun 2008MPs across the country are being invited to volunteer alongside young people in their constituencies to see how young volunteers are making a difference to their communities.
Tackling young runaways: a role for everyone
17 Jun 2008The government has launched a new Young Runaways Action Plan.
Young people allowed to stay in foster families beyond the age of 18
17 Jun 2008The government has announced a new pilot programme which will allow young people to stay in foster families beyond the age of 18.
Crime plan to keep children out of jail
17 Jun 2008As part of the youth crime action plan to be published this summer, the Home Office has recommended that responsibility and funding for tackling youth crime, including local youth offending teams, should be moved to local authority run children's trusts.
Binge-drinking adverts launched
17 Jun 2008A series of adverts warning 18- to 24-year-olds about the consequences of binge-drinking is being launched by the Home Office.
Boxing clever
17 Jun 2008Case study of the London Boxing Academy Community Project in north London, which combines sport with education for disengaged inner-city young people.



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