YouthNet, the charity founded by newsreader Martyn Lewis in 1996, provides generic and personalised advice and guidance over the internet. It also lists youth volunteering opportunities on another web site.
The 16- to 25-year-old age group has been in the spotlight recently, with the publication of the Social Exclusion Unit's Young Adults with Troubled Lives report (see Analysis, p9) and the Barrow Cadbury Commission's Lost in transition: young adults and the criminal justice system (see Briefing, p12). YouthNet was picked out for special recognition by the former as an example of best practice.
"This age group falls between two stools," says Dawe. "They are growing in to growing up, they fall off the end of one system and crash before they get into another."
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