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POLICY & PRACTICE: Briefing - Parents will pay for children's behaviour

15 October 2003, Young People Now

Two government departments have issued draft guidance on how to help adults in controlling their children. This is the stuff that prompted headlines about schools dishing out fines to parents...

POLICY & PRACTICE: Soapbox - Young people should be given more of a helping hand

15 October 2003, Young People Now

Young people need to be given ways to help develop their full potential and have equal opportunities for value and growth. Sport is a great way of doing this and...

BIG INTERVIEW: A hand on the purse strings - Nick Stuart, chairman, John Lyon's Charity

15 October 2003, Young People Now

Thanks to John Lyon, a yeoman farmer in the reign of Elizabeth I who left a substantial chunk of Maida Vale as an endowment, the charity in his name now...

OPINION: The Ferret ... digs behind the headlines

15 October 2003, Young People Now

Can youth work stem the rise in autism? This may not be a far-fetched idea. Young people with the distressing condition tend to have great difficulty interacting with others. When...

OPINION: HOT ISSUE - Was Connexions correct to recall its cannabis leaflet?

15 October 2003, Young People Now

Last week Connexions partnerships were told by the Department for Education and Skills to withdraw a leaflet after some national newspapers claimed it would encourage teenagers to use drugs. YES...

EDITORIAL: A Law that penalises the well behaved

15 October 2003, Young People Now

In his book Hooligan, the criminologist Geoffrey Pearson shows by looking at press and official reports from Victorian times and the first half of the 20th century, that adult disapproval...

OPINION: The spirit of young enterprise lives on

15 October 2003, Young People Now

Something of a cryptic joke circulating at the moment is that, within the Home Office, young people can do no right whereas just down the road, in the Children and...

YOUTH WORK IN SCHOOLS: School's not out

15 October 2003, Young People Now

The Government's green paper proposes making schools a hub of services for young people. Henrietta Bond talks to two schools in Lancashire about a project that has demonstrated how integral...

YOUTH PARTICIPATION: Listen to me

15 October 2003, Young People Now

This year's Local Democracy Week focuses on youth participation. Maria Clegg discovers whether councils just pay lip service to the views of young people, or whether they actually take their...

RESOURCES: Talking point - Are events like Black History Month worthwhile?

15 October 2003, Young People Now

History is a way of making sense of the past. But do certain groups use it to reflect well on themselves, while neglecting other people's experiences? Kick-start a discussion during...