Theme : neet
- New report claims Asbos routinely given to young people with mental health issues - 26/02/2007 - Com 38% of ASBO kids have mental health issues. from : tomrichardson 2nd March 2007
- South Korean pupils to get bodyguards | Schools special reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk Street violence and fear of leaving one's house is a widespread problem among young people world wide. This report doesn't comment on gender, but my money is on the worst affected being boys, again. from : tomrichardson 2nd March 2007
- Open the gates and free people from Britain's ghettos | Communities | SocietyGuardian.c Article about the need to understand the effect that living in ghetto-like housing estates can have on the mind. There is a very good critique of the arguments in the second comment (possibly better than Hutton's article). from : tomrichardson 19th February 2007
- Talking school dropouts round to university Motivating disillusioned pupils to go to university defeats most experts. Now, relationship counsellors at Relate have been brought in to help. And as Lucy Hodges discovers, this novel approach is getting results from : tomrichardson 15th February 2007
- Give our children more respect, urge campaigners | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk Politicians and campaigners called yesterday for a fundamental change in society's attitude to children in the wake of yesterday's report by Unicef which revealed that growing up in the UK is a bleaker experience than in any other wealthy country. The solutions are not financial or political. from : tomrichardson 15th February 2007
- Crisis point over Britain's disaffected youth | Uk News | News | Telegraph Britain faces a ''crisis at its heart" because of the way it treats its young people, the Children's Commissioner for England said yesterday. from : tomrichardson 15th February 2007
- Jailing children a 'national scandal' | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk Locking up teenage offenders is largely a waste of money with only a small proportion of the 3,350 currently held needing to be imprisoned to protect the public, according to a leading figure on the government's own Youth Justice Board. from : tomrichardson 14th February 2007
- British youngsters get worst deal, says UN | Uk News | News | Telegraph Britain has been ranked bottom out of 21 countries in a United Nations assessment of children's well-being. from : tomrichardson 14th February 2007
- Little benefit for working single mothers | Uk News | News | Telegraph Single parents caught in benefits trap. There is little incentive for single mothers to return to work from : tomrichardson 14th February 2007
- Apprenticeships introduced at Mulberry | Further | EducationGuardian.co.uk Lack of skilled factory workers and aging current workforce has caused Mulberry to introduce apprenticeships at their factory in Somerset. from : tomrichardson 13th February 2007