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
- Punishment won't get rid of knife crime
- 23 Jul 2008Comment piece by one time gang member Mark Johnson which criticises the government's recent Youth Crime Action Plan for its punitive nature and argues that tackling knife crime means identifying young people at risk and providing them with intensive psychological and social support.
- Deprived white boys need ripping yarns, says Ofsted
- 23 Jul 2008A report by Ofsted on how schools should engage with white working-class boys says they need action-packed stories about danger or sport to inspire them in lessons.
- Ofsted report evaluates the impact of Programme-led apprenticeships
- 23 Jul 2008An evaluation of programame-led apprenticeships by Ofsted has found that they are an important alternative to employer-led apprenticeships, but there are concerns that more needs to be done to understand and promote the programme following a fall in participation.
- Mum's the word
- 23 Jul 2008Case study of Elizabeth House, a project in Gateshead which provides accommodation and help for young mothers in need who require 24-hour support.
- Children 'denied right to cultural life'
- 22 Jul 2008A campaign group consisting of leading authors and artists has claimed that the government is not doing enough to promote the arts for children and young people.
- Support for faith communities
- 22 Jul 2008The government has launched its Framework for Partnership which outlines new support and £7.5m investment to encourage and enable greater local activity to bringing people from different religions and beliefs together and support the work of faith groups.
- UK gun crime and links with organised crime in Russia
- 21 Jul 2008Feature looking at the rise of the Baikal as the gun of choice among those involved in gang warfare in Britain.
- A brief history of youth crime
- 21 Jul 2008Opinion piece taking a look through The Times archive to compare today's concerns of juvenile crime with that of the past.
- Inner cities experience 55 per cent of knife and gun crime
- 18 Jul 2008The British Crime Survey has highlighted that more than half of the 22,151 knife and gun attacks last year were committed in the areas of inner London , Birmingham and Manchester.
- Decision on cervical cancer vaccine is false economy, say health groups
- 18 Jul 2008The Government's decision to purchase a cervical cancer vaccine that does not give protection against another sexually transmitted disease has been critised by charities involved in sexual health.
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