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
- The whole community must be involved in fighting violence
- 4 Jul 2008Lee Jasper's comment piece on today's Guardian website argues that we should not seek to tackle the growing incidence of teenage murders as somehow divorced from the incidence of violence generally within our communities.
- 18,000 women and children trafficked into UK sex trade
- 3 Jul 2008Report suggesting that up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, are working in brothels across Britain after being smuggled into the country to meet the booming demand for prostitutes according to figures released by the police.
- Crackdown on knife carriers leads to 100 charges in London
- 3 Jul 2008Ninety-five per cent of young people caught with knives in London are being charged rather than cautioned, marking a huge increase in the number of young people appearing in court as police try to tackle the growing problem.
- Editorial - There are ways we can tackle knife crime
- 3 Jul 2008An Independent editorial article on street violence which argues that although headline statistics show that knife crime, rather than rising, has remained stable over the past decade they fail to reflect the extent to which the use of knives has increased among the young.
- EU opinions sought Questionnaire
- 2 Jul 2008A questionnaire for young people about the European Union and the UK.
- Street violence is an infection. I can cure it
- 2 Jul 2008Feature on the CeaseFire initiative in Chicago, which is tackling gang violence by treating it as an epidemic.
- Youths who see crime and violence as a career choice
- 2 Jul 2008Round-up of recent research findings related to young people and gangs.
- Gang life is replacing family life, says woman police chief
- 2 Jul 2008A leading chief constable has claimed that a gang culture based on violence and drugs has become a way of life in deprived parts of many larger English cities and cannot be tackled by policing alone.
- Four arrested in hunt for teenager's killer as hundreds join protest against
- 2 Jul 2008Some 400 young people marched through the streets of North London to call for an end to knife crime, following the murder of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella.
- High level of fat and salt in fun park food, says report
- 2 Jul 2008Not one of nearly 400 meals checked at 220 theme parks, wildlife parks, museums and other leisure attractions last year met fully the official guidelines for healthier food expected in schools in term time, according to the Local Government Association.
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