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Health: Primary care trusts to look after YOIs

31 March 2004, Young People Now

Primary care trusts are to take control of health care in 11 young offenders' institutions (YOIs) from April. The move marks the start of a handover of all prison health...

Voluntary sector: Prince's Trust finds new chief executive

31 March 2004, Young People Now

The Prince's Trust has appointed Martina Milburn as its new chief executive. Milburn, who has been chief executive of the BBC Children in Need Appeal since 2000, succeeds Sir Tom...

Youth justice: Funds point to wider role for restorative justice

31 March 2004, Young People Now

Restorative justice should play a pivotal role in schools, said skills and vocational education minister Ivan Lewis last week. Speaking at the International Restorative Justice Conference in Winchester, Lewis said...

Numbers game: Youth justice pledge

31 March 2004, Young People Now

The Government's pledge to halve the time from arrest to sentence for persistent young offenders is improving year on year. According to the latest Home Office figures, the average time...

Environment: National Trust pilot opens to under-18s

31 March 2004, Young People Now

The National Trust is opening up its working holidays programme to 16- and 17-year-olds for the first time this summer. The scheme gets young volunteers involved in residential conservation work...

Homelessness: Government grant goes to Safe Moves

31 March 2004, Young People Now

The Safe Moves programme to prevent youth homelessness has received £50,000 from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The money will help the project's four pilots, in Birmingham, Wolverhampton,...

Social exclusion: Secondary education is failing young Travellers

31 March 2004, Young People Now

The inflexibility of secondary school curricula is one of the reasons why young people from Traveller and Gypsy backgrounds are failing in education, a new study by the University of...

Wales: Crime prevention schemes launched

31 March 2004, Young People Now

Two crime prevention projects aimed at the 50 young people most likely to offend in Rhyl and Swansea are to launch this week. The youth inclusion projects (YIPs) are backed...

Don't miss ... Where Have All The Young Men Gone?

31 March 2004, Young People Now

BBC Radio 4, 6 April, 8.00-8.40pm The last census counted a million fewer people than expected - and it was mainly young men who had vanished. The Office for National...

Quotes of the week

31 March 2004, Young People Now

I'm more than happy to take up YPN's concerns with Margaret Hodge Ivan lewis, minister for skills and vocational education, when asked why "young people" isn't included in the title...