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YPN Foundation National Youth Conference: Local authorities will not be tied to opportunity card idea

30 November 2005, Young People Now

Local authorities will be able to opt out of the youth activities opportunity card scheme proposed in the Youth Matters green paper, the young people's minister Beverley Hughes said last...

Incentives may not help young people

30 November 2005, Young People Now

Incentive-based policies may not be appropriate for disadvantaged young people, according to a literature review carried out for the Social Exclusion Unit. The report, compiled by Gill Jones, retired professor...

Individual support orders must go up

30 November 2005, Young People Now

Local government minister Phil Woolas has blamed the punitive culture of courts for the small number of individual support orders given alongside antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs). By law, courts are...

Substance misuse schemes studied

30 November 2005, Young People Now

Drug and alcohol treatment charity Addaction has teamed up with social care charity Turning Point to research the provision of youth substance misuse programmes. The mapping study, which is being...

Positive images

30 November 2005, Young People Now

In the youth panel section of the YPN Foundation conference Nathan, 22, explains to delegates why he got involved with youth work. "We were looking around us, and all we...

YPN Foundation National Youth Conference: Baroness to chair ministerial group

30 November 2005, Young People Now

Baroness Andrews will chair a ministerial group to ensure the Government implements Social Exclusion Unit recommendations on young people with multiple needs. Phil Woolas, minister for local government in the...

YPN Foundation National Youth Conference: Report to redefine self-harm condition

30 November 2005, Young People Now

A self-harm report will call for the condition to be seen as a symptom of distress rather than an individual problem. The National Inquiry into Self-Harm Among Young People from...

In brief: Helplines

30 November 2005, Young People Now

ChildLine hopes the NSPCC takeover in February 2006 will help it use young people's voices more effectively....

In brief: Youth service

30 November 2005, Young People Now

Susie Roberts, principal youth officer at Bracknell Forest, has been announced as the first chief executive of the Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers....

In brief: Youth justice

30 November 2005, Young People Now

A judicial review of the Government's decision not to hold a public inquiry into the suicide in custody of Joseph Scholes, 16, will be heard this week....