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YOUTH SERVICE: Northamptonshire to reshuffle services after Ofsted criticism

17 September 2003, Young People Now

Northamptonshire's youth service will become part of a new children and families service in a reshuffle at the county council from next year. The proposals were highlighted by the council...

HOMELESSNESS: Choice Protects to offer refuge grants

17 September 2003, Young People Now

Local authorities and voluntary organisations can bid for a share of £2m from the Choice Protects scheme to set up community-based refuges for homeless young people. The two-year pilot was...

CONNEXIONS: Information sharing scheme suspended

17 September 2003, Young People Now

Legal fears have forced Connexions and Jobcentre Plus to suspend the sharing of information about young people. The agencies had been sharing information about unemployed teenagers but concerns about the...

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: South Wales Police hires public contact

17 September 2003, Young People Now

South Wales Police is launching a new approach to enable the public to report antisocial behaviour to the police next week. The force has hired an antisocial behaviour case co-ordinator,...

SPORT: Project plans to get English schoolchildren active

17 September 2003, Young People Now

Sports minister Richard Caborn this week launched a programme across England aimed at re-engaging young people with school through physical activity. Following three successful pilots, which started in January, the...

Numbers game Scouts

17 September 2003, Young People Now

The largest uniformed youth movement in the country also has the greatest awareness among members of the public. The 500,000-strong Scout Association, which commissioned Mori to poll nearly 2,000 adults...

NEWS IN BRIEF: LBG

17 September 2003, Young People Now

Report says bullying policy must improve Youth workers need to develop policies around bullying and victimisation because of sexuality, according to a report into the mental health and wellbeing of...

YOUTH SERVICE: Cambridgeshire to expand provision

17 September 2003, Young People Now

A redevelopment scheme is poised to expand the range of youth services on offer in the Cambridgeshire town of Wisbech. The £1.5m multi-agency project will build a replacement for Wisbech's...

NORTHERN IRELAND: Project unites work in areas with conflict

17 September 2003, Young People Now

A three-year project is to bring together best practice in youth work in areas that have experienced conflict recently. Delegates came from 10 different countries, including the US, South Africa...

TRAVELLERS: Local authorities fail on information

17 September 2003, Young People Now

Young Travellers are being excluded from essential services such as education and health care because local authorities are failing to communicate properly with them and their families, recently published research...