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YOUNG OFFENDERS: Children's Society criticises the proposed antisocial bill

19 March 2003, Young People Now

The Home Office's white paper on antisocial behaviour has come under fire from The Children's Society, which claims it will push children into crime and plunge families into poverty. Home...

SOCIAL SERVICES: Southampton to review child practice

19 March 2003, Young People Now

Southampton City Council has had to review its social services for children procedures after agreeing to pay a family £1,000 following claims that the council failed to fully investigate their...

RECREATION: Better Play targets inclusion projects

19 March 2003, Young People Now

Young people in England will benefit from nearly £3m made available in the final round of grants from Better Play, a partnership between children and young people's charity Barnardo's and...

ENTERPRISE: The Prince's Trust makes over London

19 March 2003, Young People Now

Youth organisation The Prince's Trust hopes to raise £3m for young business schemes by performing a sponsored makeover on London's Farringdon Street. Trust supporters such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Merrill Lynch and...

VOLUNTARY: Magazine launch for Duke's scheme

19 March 2003, Young People Now

A magazine is to be launched for the 250,000 participants in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme. Inside Out will initially be published three times a year, targeting a core...

MENTAL HEALTH: Parental helpline wins extra funding

19 March 2003, Young People Now

Mental health charity Young Minds has been awarded £140,000 through the Government's Children's Fund to maintain a telephone helpline for parents concerned about their children's mental welfare. Dinah Morley, deputy...

ARTS BEAT: World of work What jobs do Welsh children want when they grow up?

19 March 2003, Young People Now

Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Gahan's ambition to work in construction won him joint first prize in a competition run by Careers Wales North West. Joyce Williams, Holyhead Careers Centre manager, said the...

NEWS IN BRIEF: Celebrate youth

19 March 2003, Young People Now

Citizen Y is an advertising campaign to celebrate Edinburgh's youth and to raise awareness of the contribution they make to the city. The campaign is being run through Edinburgh Youth...

NEWS IN BRIEF: Action on poverty

19 March 2003, Young People Now

Charity Barnardo's has criticised the Government's strategy on child poverty. Barnardo's said that, four years after Prime Minister Tony Blair's pledge to end child poverty by 2020, the Government must...

NEWS IN BRIEF: Evaluation call

19 March 2003, Young People Now

Torfaen County Borough Council is inviting tender applications for an evaluation of its young people's social inclusion projects and grants provision. For more information, email viv.laing@torfaen.gov.uk before 1 April....