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




Sex infections in young up again
16 Jul 2008New figures from the Health Protection Agency have found there was a 6% rise in sexual infections in the UK in 2007 compared to 2006, although the number of people being tested has also risen sharply.
Lost, stolen or strayed
15 Jul 2008Article in which Helen Southworth, MP for Warrington South, talks about her parliamentary bill to safeguard runaway and missing children and calls for a national reporting system to help determine how many children and young people run away and what happens to them when they do.
Youth crime action plan to be published
15 Jul 2008The government is to publish its youth crime action plan today.
This is far more likely to work than locking them up
15 Jul 2008Comment piece in which Polly Toynbee praises the government's youth crime action plan, arguing that its focus on intensive early intervention offers proven ways of dealing with young offenders.
Teachers to get powers to stop and search pupils
15 Jul 2008Recommendations of an inquiry into school discipline by Sir Alan Steer are to give teachers new powers to stop and search pupils for drugs, alcohol, mobile phones and other items prohibited under school behaviour policies.
Young people to let their ideas drive the future
14 Jul 2008The government has launched a nationwide consultation to encourage young drivers to have their views heard on proposals for improved driver training and testing.
Girls report pressure to live up to sexual ideals
14 Jul 2008A study by Girlguiding UK and the Mental Health Foundation has revealed that girls and young women feel increasingly under pressure from magazines and websites to live up to material and sexual ideals, leaving them vulnerable, unhappy and under pressure to grow up too quickly.
Tactics against gangs fatally flawed, says report
14 Jul 2008Researchers at Manchester University have found evidence which directly contradicts the core assumptions of government policy on gang and knife crime.
Chief Medical Officer calls for renewed focus on teenage health
14 Jul 2008Publishing the 2007 annual report, the government's Chief Medical Officer, Liam Donaldson has called upon health authorities to take better account of young people's health, stating that adolescence could be a 'challenging time' with exposure to alcohol, drugs and smoking.
'What's wrong with offering an incentive?'
14 Jul 2008Article looks at Orange RockCorps, a new scheme launched in the UK this month which seeks to reward community spirit.



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