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YOUTH JUSTICE: Campaign calls for inquiry into death

12 November 2003, Young People Now

A campaign into the role the youth justice system played in the death of Joseph Scholes in a young offenders' institution was due to start yesterday (11 November). Deaths in...

ENVIRONMENT: Gloucester creates environment post

12 November 2003, Young People Now

Gloucestershire County Council wants to hire its first full-time environmental youth worker. The authority is looking to recruit someone with knowledge of sustainability issues, initially on a six-month contract. Sharon...

CHARITIES: Young people's groups look at forging closer ties

12 November 2003, Young People Now

A consortium of seven children and young people's charities is embarking on a series of feasibility studies to discover ways of working more closely together. The Children's Centre Project will...

Numbers game Adoption

12 November 2003, Young People Now

Last year, there were almost 60,000 children under 16 in local authority care in England, with the number of care orders rising. Forty-two per cent of cared-for children were between...

YOUNG WOMEN: YWCA scheme sets up support centre

12 November 2003, Young People Now

Derelict shops and flats in one of Wolverhampton's most disadvantaged areas are being transformed into a centre for young women. The YWCA has secured a three-year lease on the site...

WALES: Services have their priorities wrong

12 November 2003, Young People Now

Children's services in Wales have been accused of failing young people by concentrating on their own differing agendas. A report called The Lost Children of Wales, by regeneration group rezolv...

RECREATION: After-school clubs to run sports pilots

12 November 2003, Young People Now

The Institute of Youth Sports and the Youth Sports Trust are to pilot a yearlong sports project for the Nestle-sponsored Make Space after-school clubs from January. The Institute worked with...

GUIDING: Girlguiding seeks to recruit new leaders

12 November 2003, Young People Now

Girlguiding UK launched its first national recruitment week on Monday (10 November) to attract 8,000 new leaders. With 50,000 girls on waiting lists to join the Rainbows, Brownies and Guides,...

Best thing I ever did - Charlene Ball, 16, Cardiff

12 November 2003, Young People Now

The best thing I ever did was to go on a residential with Weston Spirit as part of its membership programme. The aim of the scheme is to help us...

ANALYSIS: Government - The changes keep on coming

12 November 2003, Young People Now

The Children and Young People's Unit is set to disappear under the new structure for young people's services. Tristan Donovan finds out what it means for the youth sector. The...