Teachers fear long days at school are turning children into "ghosts", leaving them overtired and withdrawn. The Guardian reports that a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, found that half of teachers believe children are spending less time with their parents than two years ago.
Youth unemployment will not fall back to pre-recession levels until at least 2018, research by the Prince’s Trust has found. The charity has warned that young people are still "bearing the brunt of the downturn", even though the recession officially ended in 2009. Under-25s are almost three times as likely to be unemployed as the UK population as a whole.
The number of teenage boys being targeted by webcam blackmailers is rising. According to the Metro, police forces in Avon and Somerset and London are investigating cases where criminals have lured boys into intimate online conversations.
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