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Feature: Healthy schools - Our health challenge

12 March 2008, Children & Young People Now

How do you get young people to ditch junk food and start exercising? Pupils in Kent have completed a challenge to help them make the switch. Ruth Smith reports.

Feature - Cultural activities: Our culture fix: what we want

27 February 2008, Children & Young People Now

The government is pledging to provide young people with five hours a week of cultural activity. But what will this consist of? Far from the opera or ballet, rap and...

Analysis: Education - From battleground to playground

27 February 2008, Children & Young People Now

The government is considering training former military personnel to become teachers in inner-city schools as part of a US-style programme to improve pupil behaviour. Nancy Rowntree examines how effective this...

Social Care: Boarding time

20 February 2008, Children & Young People Now

Only eight children have taken part in a high-profile scheme to send vulnerable children to boarding schools. Mathew Little speaks to the local authorities and schools involved to find out...

Feature - Mental health: School of wellbeing

13 February 2008, Children & Young People Now

The government is spending an extra £60m over the next three years on mental health work in schools. Nancy Rowntree examines some of the practices under way.

Analysis: Safeguarding - Safety plan permits measure of risk

13 February 2008, Children & Young People Now

There is little doubt that an element of fear has taken a hold on today's society, particularly when it comes to the safety of children and young people. But a...

Feature - Generation of the apprentice

6 February 2008, Children & Young People Now

The government wants 90,000 more apprenticeship places created as part of its plan to raise the education leaving age to 18 by 2015. Tom de Castella finds out what it...

Feature - Education: The secret of success

30 January 2008, Children & Young People Now

The Priory School in Kent has seen performance in exams more than double in the last three years. Sue Learner finds out how extended services made the difference.

Analysis: Health - Ambitious plans for fighting obesity

30 January 2008, Children & Young People Now

The government has announced ambitious plans to tackle the growing problem of obesity.

Interview: Sir Bob Geldof - Make truancy history

23 January 2008, Children & Young People Now

Sir Bob Geldof has his own unique take on the value of education. "Some old Greek once said only the educated are free, and that's the truth, particularly in the...