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DISABILITY: Swansea sets up local youth network

19 November 2003, Young People Now

Young disabled people in Swansea have set up a network in a bid to improve access to and awareness of issues such as transport and leisure. This follows the setting...

INFORMATION SHARING: Pilot schemes back on track after legal debate

19 November 2003, Young People Now

Work on a flagship government scheme to share information about young people between agencies resumed last week after fears over potential legal problems were allayed. A trailblazer project in Bolton...

NUMBERS GAME: Youth work staff levels

19 November 2003, Young People Now

Almost 12 months ago, the Government launched its Resourcing Excellent Youth Services blueprint to level up the quality of youth services throughout England and bring all services up to standard....

REFUGEES: Foundation to help fund asylum groups

19 November 2003, Young People Now

A fund has been set up to provide a number of grants of up to £50,000 to organisations working with young asylum seekers and refugees. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, which...

WALES: Youth justice heads conference agenda

19 November 2003, Young People Now

The devolution of youth justice in Wales will be top of the agenda at the Children in Wales annual conference next week. Catriona Williams, chief executive of the umbrella organisation...

VOLUNTEERING: Crime Concern asks for more helpers

19 November 2003, Young People Now

Crime-reduction charity Crime Concern has launched its first national campaign to recruit volunteers for its mentoring and youth inclusion programmes. The What if ... campaign is being run in partnership...

BEST THING I EVER DID: David Atkinson, 18, Rotherham, South Yorkshire

19 November 2003, Young People Now

My youth offending services officer referred me to the youth service. From there I signed up for an expedition in the jungle in Malaysia for two months. I went with...

ANALYSIS: Youth justice - The trouble with funding

19 November 2003, Young People Now

Youth offending teams found out at their annual conference that what they were being given with one hand was being taken away with the other. Tristan Donovan reports. "Funding" was...

POLICY & PRACTICE: Briefing - Pointers for England's children's champion

19 November 2003, Young People Now

The children's commissioner for Wales has outlined his role in his second annual report on young people. A children's commissioner? There's going to be one of those in England now...

POLICY & PRACTICE: Soapbox - Excluded youth must be targeted much earlier on

19 November 2003, Young People Now

More than 30,000 pupils left school in 2002 with no qualifications, a level that is set to rise. Government figures suggest that 157,000 16- to 18-year-olds were not in education,...