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Policy & Practice: Briefing - Home is a place where you feel wanted

28 March 2007, Young People Now

For its latest research, Centrepoint has been asking young people to explain "what is homelessness?". Why has Centrepoint done this? Centrepoint has been developing an early intervention programme that could...

Policy & Practice: Numbers game - Work experience

28 March 2007, Young People Now

Young people generally enjoy work experience but the process could be better structured to help them practise and develop work-related skills, finds a report from the Confederation of British Industry...

Policy & Practice: Health check - Teenage asthma Newcastle

28 March 2007, Young People Now

Hospital admissions for asthma in Newcastle are twice the national average. This is perhaps unsurprising given the city's heavy industrial legacy, dense population and frequent vehicle congestion. But in recent...

Big Interview: Dedicated to the cause - Jim Sweeney, chief executive, YouthLink Scotland

28 March 2007, Young People Now

Several weeks ago, Jim Sweeney asked a group of judges and prosecutors if they would swap their place with a 16-year-old today. "Not one person said they would," he recalls....

Opinion: Hot Issue - Are teenage murders part of an ongoing trend?

28 March 2007, Young People Now

Communities minister Ruth Kelly says the recent spate of teenage killings amount to a series of isolated incidents, not a trend "sweeping the country", but others fear a permanent trend...

Opinion: Feedback

28 March 2007, Young People Now

EU LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES The EU's new Lifelong Learning and Youth in Action Programmes were launched on 1 January 2007. These will make about £50m available each year to learners and...

Editorial: To commission or not to commission?

28 March 2007, Young People Now

A year on from the publication of Youth Matters: Next Steps, the shifting role of local authorities from being deliverers to commissioners of services for young people has come into...

Opinion: A testament to the value of youth clubs

28 March 2007, Young People Now

There is currently something of a downer on the allegedly old-fashioned "bog standard" youth club and I have often found myself speaking in defence of it. After all, the criticism...

Youth Justice: Why is the verdict so often custody?

28 March 2007, Young People Now

The number of young people given custodial sentences continues to rise, despite a fall in youth crime. Tom de Castella asks whether the system itself is to blame

Positive activities: Stress relief

28 March 2007, Young People Now

Young people can be just as tense as adults, so what would they make of a week learning massage techniques? Katy Moore found out