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
- What else can a youth worker do?
- 20 Aug 2008Careers advice feature for a qualified youth worker who wants a role with more strategic responsibility.
- Ministers want doctors to tell police if they treat patients with wounds from knife attack
- 19 Aug 2008Guidance drawn up by the Department of Health and the General Medical Council will see accident and emergency doctors informing the police whenever someone goes to hospital for treatment for wounds inflicted in a knife attack.
- Intergenerational ties stronger than people think
- 19 Aug 2008The Full of Life study, a government initiative designed to celebrate the role older people play in society has found that young people aged 15 - 24 have the widest social circle with two thirds regularly spending time with friends both older and younger than themselves.
- Struggling schools risk losing funds
- 18 Aug 2008Struggling secondary schools will learn this week if they could be forced to close by the end of the year amid accusations that the government is abandoning them.
- Celebration for A-level students - especially if they live in the South
- 15 Aug 2008A North-South divide in the performance of teenagers has been exposed by this year's A-level results, according to a regional breakdown produced by the exam board.
- More young people end up in hospital as price of heroin and cocaine falls
- 15 Aug 2008A growing number of children and young adults are being admitted to hospital after taking illegal drugs, includng more than 1,200 admissions of under-16s last year, according to NHS data for the decade to 2007.
- Staying on cuts rates of teenage pregnancy
- 15 Aug 2008Increasing the age of compulsory education and training to 18 could help to cut England's persistently high teenage pregnancy rates, according to research looking at rises in participation age in Norway and the United States, published by the Royal Economic Society.
- Bling culture turns youths to crime, says minister
- 14 Aug 2008Skills minister David Lammy has said that young men are shunning work and turning to a life of crime as Britain develops a "get rich or die trying" culture.
- Increased numbers of pupils are passing A Levels
- 14 Aug 2008This year's results show that there is an increase in the number of A-level passes.
- A-level divide between rich and poor
- 14 Aug 2008Research published by the Conservatives claims that fewer than one in eight GCSE students go on to study A-levels in some of the poorest areas of England.
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