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| One youngster a day is being convicted of sexual offences against a child, figures show. Last year 357 aged 18 and under were found guilty by the courts of offences including rape of another child, sexual assault on a child aged under 13, sexual grooming, incest and the taking or possessing indecent photographs of minors. The total includes 136 children aged between ten and 15 who have been convicted of sex offences against other children and who are, in effect; paedophiles. The others were aged 16 to 18. | |
| Young People | The Daily Mail 03.09.2012 |
| albeit only slightly. Records show that 70.6% of young people aged 16-18 were in full time education in 2011, compared to 70.5% in 2012. While this looks small percentage-wise, it represents a fall of almost 32,000 students and follows a steady and continuous rise in those choosing to continue studying beyond compulsory education. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – September 2012 |
| Young people are training for the wrong careers: Too many young people are training for jobs that don’t exist, according to the Local Government Association. Their recent report revealed that the demand for electricians, plumbers, engineers and environmental officers far outweighed the numbers of young people in training for these professions, in contrast to the high proportion of youngsters headed for the already saturated industries beauty, fitness and the media. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – September 2012 |
| Hundreds and thousands of young people could be stripped of housing benefit and forced to live with their parents as part of a new welfare crack down signalled by David Cameron. The Prime Minister insisted the system was giving the wrong incentives as he urged more action to prevent families relying on state handouts. The measures include scrapping most of the £1.8 billion in housing benefits paid to under 380,000 under 25’s. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – 25th June 2012 |
| Baroness Newlove and the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles visited the Salvation Army in Great Yarmouth to launch an initiative to tackle underage drinking and street drinking. In the new scheme – one of the nationwide Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAPs) – groups including police, schools, supermarkets, the borough council and The Salvation Army will work together to develop a culture in which people drink responsibly and understand safe levels of consumption. They also want to ensure that minors can access alcohol only under responsible supervision. | |
| Young People | The War Cry – April 2012 |
| The idea of "girl power" has led teenage girls to believe they can drink as much as men, a World Health Organi¬sation report suggests. Interviews with teenagers in Europe and North America found those in England, Scotland and Wales were among the heaviest drinkers. Almost half of 15-year-old British girls had been drunk at least twice. The Health Behav¬iour in School-aged Children study found the world average was 29 per cent. Wales was the third worst country for teen¬age drinking, Scotland sev¬enth and England eighth. Prof Candace Currie of the University of St Andrew's, who worked on the study, said the gender gap on "risk taking" behaviour had narrowed in countries with more equality. | |
| Young People | The Daily Telegraph May 2 2012 |
| Poor parenting was one of the underlying reasons for last summer's riots, an official report into the causes of the disorder has found. The Riots, Communities and Victims Panel report, published yesterday, concluded that materialism and a lack of confidence in police were also among the causes. It said: "We heard from many communities who felt that rioter behaviour could ultimately be ascribed to poor parenting." Among its recommendations were that schools should be penalised if pupils leave without being able to read or write and that prison leavers should be given more support. The panel also said that 500,000 "forgotten families" should be helped to prevent youngsters becoming involved in further disorder. | |
| Young People | The Daily Telegraph - March 28 2012 |
| The Government has pinned its hopes on tackling rising youth unemployment via start-ups, introducing a £10m enterprise loan scheme to help under-25s set up their own business. The one-year pilot scheme will work in a similar way to the student loans system, which helps thousands of people go to university each year. Up to 7,000 young people aged 18 to 24 will be able to borrow between £5,000 to £10,000 to help them start their own company, the Department for Business (BIS) said. Under-25s will need a "viable" business plan before they get their hands on any money and will be expected to pitch ideas to third-party providers, such as The Prince's Trust, who will run the scheme. Under the enterprise loan scheme - mooted by Virgin entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson last week - young people would be expected to start paying back the money once their business began earning money. If their start-up failed, they would still have to pay back the loan, but only when they earned a decent income, BIS said. | |
| Young People | Daily Telegraph - March 22 2012 |
| Youngsters on the Government’s work experience scheme will be able to leave after a week without facing benefits sanctions under a changed announced by ministers. It follows a meeting with scores of employers, after protests by activists who complained that youngsters were being forced to work for nothing. The Department for Work and Pensions said sanctions would still apply for cases of gross misconduct, such as stealing, but volunteers would be able to leave after a week without losing their benefits. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – 1st March 2012 |
| An analysis of 20 years’ worth of school suspension rates in the USA (published in October 2011) shows that the greatest influence on boys’ behaviour at school is not the type of school they attend or the teacher they have, but the type of home in which they’re being raised. Researchers at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business found that boys in intact homes with both parents had the least behavioural problems and school suspensions, while boys being raised by single mothers had the most. This was not found to be the case among girls, however. | |
| Young People | Evangelicals Now - March 2012 |
| The government will spend almost £1 billion over the next three years on the new Youth Contract, a scheme which they believe will provide nearly half a million new opportunities for young people, including apprenticeships and work experience placements. Young people will also receive more support through the Work Programme, Jobcentre Plus and Work Academies. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, February 2012 |
| Young people in the UK have less access to activities outside of school than those in other similar countries and are stuck in a ‘materialistic trap’ in which parents struggle to spend time with their children and instead buy toys and gadgets according to new research from UNICEF. The research provides an in-depth comparison of over 250 children’s experiences of materialism across three developed countries – UK, Sweden and Spain. Children in all three countries told researchers that their happiness is dependent on having time with a stable family and plenty of things to do, especially outdoors, rather than on owning technology or branded clothes. Despite this, one of the most striking findings is that parents in the UK said they felt tremendous pressure from society to buy material goods for their children. This pressure was felt most acutely in low-income homes. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, November 2011 |
| Christian groups are tackling the issue of youth unemployment in a new partnership. Prompted by high figures of youth unemployment, Churches Together England, Frontier Youth Trust and the Church Urban Fund have joined forces to investigate the experiences of young people who are unemployed. At present approximately 20% of young people are unemployed. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, November 2011 |
| Two major Christian youth festivals once again reported high numbers of young people making first-time commitments to the faith in August. Soul Survivor, held for a week in Staffordshire and two weeks in Somerset, reported that 1,624 teenagers made a ‘decision’ over the course of the Summer, with well over 25,000 young people attending in total. The Norfolk-based Newday event, which originates out of the Newfrontiers church movement, saw 365 young people make the same commitment during their week-long event, with 7,000 attending. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - October 2011 |
| Young Christians give much more support to their Muslim peers, in comparison with young people who have no religious faith, according to new research. The University of Warwick survey found that 79 per cent of practising Christians believe Muslims should be allowed to wear headscarves in schools. This compared with 60 per cent who have no religion and 59 per cent for nominal Christians. | |
| Young People | Salvationist 13 August 2011 |
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