Daily roundup: Health "timebomb" for Neets, council loses data, and school starting age demo

Youth unemployment in the UK is creating a public health “timebomb” due to increases in deprivation and mental illness according to a study for the World Health Organisation by Sir Michael Marmot, The Guardian reports. Although UK mortality rates for under-fives are relatively low at 5.4 deaths per 1,000, many countries including the Czech Republic and Slovenia do better.

North East Lincolnshire Council has been fined £80,000 for losing the personal data of 286 children with special needs. The Independent reports that the Information Commissioner’s Office imposed the fine after a memory stick containing unencrypted data went missing.

Campaigners calling for the school starting age to be pushed back to six or seven are set to march on parliament today. The Too Much, Too Soon campaign, co-ordinated by the Save Childhood Movement, is calling on the government to re-establish the early years as a unique stage in its own right and “not merely a preparation for school”. 

Southampton’s Local Safeguarding Children Board has identified the need to better monitor those convicted of violence against children after a serious case review into the death of a three-month-old boy who died from a skull fracture in 2011, the BBC reports. The boy's father had previously served a 12-month prison sentence following a conviction in 2008 for causing five fractures to the body of his baby son from a previous relationship.