AFRUCA, a group that campaigns against child abuse and educates young Africans living in Britain about their rights, has received a 5,400 grant from the Carnegie UK Trust. AFRUCA will use the money to set up a youth forum.
Funding from the Lloyds TSB Foundation has enabled the Football Association of Wales Trust to appoint its first national co-ordinator for disability football. Nicola Tennant was previously a development officer for Disability Sport Cymru.
Black and minority ethnic organisations and faith groups are to be invited by the Home Office's Active Communities Unit to team up to develop targeted support for their communities. The first stage of the National Exemplar Fund has allocated nearly 1m to 22 national projects. www.home office.gov.uk/comrace/active/developing/index.html.
The Sure Start Unit at the Department for Education and Skills has commissioned NCB's early childhood unit to produce a series of guides on listening to children from 0-8 years of age.
A new project from NCB will examine ways of boosting the involvement of learning mentors and Connexions advisers in the delivery of PSHE and citizenship education.
Gary Musson has been appointed as NCB's fundraising manager. Gary joins the organisation from Clubs for Young People, where he was a senior fundraising and events officer.
"Smackers fight back", was the headline in The Times. It introduced a story about a group of fundamentalist Christian schools that are not part of the Children are unbeatable! alliance.
Northern Ireland needs greater investment in family support and prevention if it is to hit targets relating to children's health, wellbeing and educational attainment, according to umbrella group Children in Northern Ireland (CINI).
The Metropolitan Police says a man convicted last week of child indecency offences, who had given lectures on child pornography to its officers - and to staff of other agencies - had at "no stage" advised it on matters relating to child protection. Stephen King, 54, had also given advice to defence solicitors. He was jailed for gross indecency under a different name in 1989 but was able to commit further offences as the sex offenders register did not exist at that time.