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Wales: Council reaches out to rural areas

Monday, November 12, 2007

| CYP Now

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council has launched a mobile community and information centre for children and young people living in isolated rural areas and former Welsh mining valleys.

Things to do - Run a disability youth group

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Friday, July 24, 2009

| CYP Now

Young people with disabilities are no longer willing to settle for second-rate youth groups. They want the same standards of sports activities, excursions and facilities as their peers.

Youth opportunity fund: How we spent it in ... Staffordshire

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Friday, July 24, 2009

| CYP Now

Staffordshire created nine panels run by young people to assess bids from different parts of the county. Tim Burke reports.

Ask the expert - What's your problem?

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Friday, July 24, 2009

| CYP Now

Inappropriate films and young people; living in a borough with a BNP councillor; and offering advice about joining the armed forces. Tracie Trimmer-Platman has the answers.

Talking Point Should sexual health advertising regulations be changed?

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

| CYP Now

Alcohol marketing is widespread, but strict restrictions remain on advertising sexual health products and services. What do young people think about the current regulations?

Youth work - Should youth clubs charge for entry?

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

| CYP Now

The issue of whether young people should pay for youth clubs has sparked a heated online debate. Ross Watson investigates.

Youth groups call for stringent checks after sex offender found

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

| CYP Now

Youth associations have called for more stringent safeguarding checks on all adults working with young people after a convicted sex offender was found to be a manager of an activity centre in Gloucestershire.

Special report: Conservative Conference 2009 - Tory fringe debates focus on the quality of services

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

| CYP Now

Fringe events at the conference in Manchester looked at Tory plans to rid children and young people's services of bureaucracy and to boost the quality of education and family life. CYP Now brings you some of the highlights

Police officers to go back to school in play service pilots

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

| CYP Now

Police officers are to learn about play and school playgrounds will open outside normal hours as part of the government's 85m pound play pathfinders initiative, CYP Now has learned.

Joint working - 20 years on: The impact of the 1989 Children Act

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

| CYP Now

Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Children Act 1989. Neil Puffett assess the successes and failures of the legislation for children and young people.

Battle of ideas to curb climate change

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

| CYP Now

Young environmentalists from across England have taken part in a Dragons' Den-style showdown in a bid to become Climate Change Champions.

Redundancies loom for specialist Connexions staff

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

| CYP Now

Cuts to specialist staff in Connexions services could seriously undermine the service, a senior official at trade union Unison has warned.

Social networking explosion poses a threat to youth groups

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

| CYP Now

Youth groups risk losing out to social networking sites like MySpace unless they rethink how best to attract teenagers, a Big Lottery Fund Scotland and YoungScot study has concluded.