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Benefits: Housing benefits are causing debts

26 April 2006, Young People Now

The housing benefit system is causing homelessness and rent arrears among young people, homelessness charities have told a government consultation on welfare reform. The current system, which only allows single,...

Employment: Taskforce to help redundant car factory staff

26 April 2006, Young People Now

Young people who are made jobless by the closure of the Peugeot factory near Coventry are to be helped by a new taskforce. The taskforce, which is led by economic...

Numbers game: Self-harm

26 April 2006, Young People Now

More than half of all young people who say they are goths self-harm, according to a survey of youth subcultures in Scotland. The research, which followed almost 1,300 young people,...

Parenting: Struggling parents are in need of help

26 April 2006, Young People Now

The Government must provide more support to parents who are struggling to raise teenage children, according to a report published today. The Parentline Plus survey found that 82 per cent...

Scotland: Disability inquiry targets transition

26 April 2006, Young People Now

Measures to improve disabled young people's transition from school to work or further education will be among recommendations published by the Scottish Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee in June. The need...

Policy: Government proposals evaluated in think-tank

26 April 2006, Young People Now

An influential think-tank will look at whether government policies for young people are based on outdated assumptions about their lives. The Institute for Public Policy Research report, due to be...

Youth justice: Prison criticised in Northallerton

26 April 2006, Young People Now

The chief inspector of prisons has criticised Northallerton Young Offender Institution for holding young people at serious risk of self-harm in segregation cells designed for unruly inmates. In her report...

Don't miss: The Trouble With ... Young People, BBC3, 1 May, 9.00-10.00pm

26 April 2006, Young People Now

Sunday Mirror columnist Carole Malone sets out around Britain to prove her theory that there is an epidemic of bad behaviour taking over the nation's young people. She believes they...

Quotes of the week

26 April 2006, Young People Now

Inducing the nation's youth to run, play, work, spend or participate in any way is a government fixation - Simon Jenkins wishes more attention were paid to older people, in...

Arts beat: In a spin

26 April 2006, Young People Now

Poppy Collie, 21, is one of a group of young Londoners from Heart and Soul, an arts organisation led by people with learning difficulties. Fourteen- to 25-year-olds and their carers...