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
- Parents to get child obesity warning
- 5 Aug 2008Parents of overweight children will be contacted by letter to inform them that their child's weight is well above the healthy norm under plans announced by the Department of Health.
- Kids need the adventure of 'risky' play
- 4 Aug 2008An ICM research report for Play England says parents harm their children's development if they ban tree-climbing or conkers.
- Lad mags 'linked to social ills'
- 4 Aug 2008Shadow education secretary Michael Gove is expected to say that 'Lad mags' such as Nuts and Zoo encourage irresponsible behaviour among young men and promote a negative image of women.
- Record numbers of university students work to pay the bills
- 4 Aug 2008A survey by NatWest has revealed that record numbers of students are working their way through university because they are overwhelmed with debt or struggling to make ends meet.
- Even 5-year-olds are at risk from self-harm, parents are warned
- 4 Aug 2008A national survey by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence into self-harm has revealed that the proportion of young people who self-harm in the UK is now among the highest in Europe.
- New report shows national suicide rate at record low
- 4 Aug 2008The 2007 Annual Report of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England shows that there continues to be a sustained fall in the rate of suicides among young men aged 20-34, a drop of 7.50 per cent between 2003-05 and 2004-06.
- Public is over-concerned by the problem of bullying in England's schools
- 4 Aug 2008Some 80 per cent of people surveyed for the Department for Children, Schools and Families thought bullying in schools was a big problem.
- 60,000 children skipped school in spring term
- 1 Aug 2008Almost 3 million school days were lost during the spring term through children missing school, government figures show.
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