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British Red Cross marked World Aids Day 2009 by releasing
the findings of a survey of young people's attitudes towards the virus - with some paradoxical results. Read More...
Which is the best way to spend public money: by developing
treatments for dementia and cancer or in counselling couples at breaking point? Read More...
Courtesy of a huge effort from teenage girls , the UK has
found itself top of the international league in one respect: drunkenness. Read More...
It is Broken Britain week at Conservative Party HQ, with
shadow home secretary Chris Grayling attempting to remind us how bad things
have become. And he mentioned political correctness only once. Read More...
Dammit. We mention the words Tory and epiphany in the same sentence and up pop former leader Iain Duncan Smith and shadow home
secretary Chris Grayling to discredit the mega-brainpower of the Outside Left policy unit. Read More...
Fostering Fortnight has just ended but agencies fear that a
carers crisis is looming. Read More...
Sir Alan Steer, the government's school behaviour tsar
(yes, there is one), is concerned about the influence on pupils of celebrity
culture - if indeed culture is the right word. Read More...
The knee has jerked. This time, after two boys aged 10
and 11 were charged with attempted murder in Doncaster, it is Chris Grayling's
knee. Read More...
The media are getting a bad press at the moment and with
some justification. The periodic vilification of social workers and the
demonising of young people are now coming under increasing criticism from us
journalists. Read More...
The teenage pregnancy figures are out today and show a rise
for the first time since 2002 . Read More...
One subject that seems to stir more passion than most is the
rights and wrongs of smoking. Separate debates on Community Care's CareSpace
discussion forum and The Guardian's Joe Public website bear this out. Read More...
If the point of A Good Childhood was to maintain the profile
of The Children's Society and provide the charity with some positive publicity,
it worked. Read More...
As a bad amateur naturalist I was interested to read about a
novel piece of restorative justice involving a pair of swans. Read More...
Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer, was on Radio
4 this morning expressing his reasonable concerns about underage drinking . Read More...
The police do it. The street cleaners of Wimbledon do it.
Even some politicians do it. Now school pupils are doing it too. Read More...
Charity DrugScope reports a worrying trend that young people are
taking increasing risks with a drug that is used to tranquilise horses. But a
study has thrown up a question on whether its classification is correct. Read More...
Is the mood changing on young people and boxing? Read More...
It is unlikely to have been in the Christmas stockings of many people, but resolve next year to read John Heale's One Blood: Inside
Britain's New Street Gangs . Read More...
For someone so critical of people who dismiss children as
feral, it was strange to read about Barnardo's boss Martin Narey using that
word himself in relation to the Baby P case. Read More...
That's the trouble with the older people of today. They just
have no respeck. They sit idly around all day on park benches, swigging
Lucozade, talking about the war - loudly I might say - and waving their sticks
and pipes to emphasise some point they...
Joseph Rowntree Foundation is doing an admirable job at
keeping child poverty on the social agenda. This week it released a report
showing the economic costs of allowing the UK's children to remain below the
poverty line. Read More...
The Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday confirmed what
many have suspected for some time: that punishment alone is ineffective in the
fight against knife crime among young people. Read More...
Two news stories at the weekend encapsulated attitudes to
income inequality and the power of celebrity. Read More...
With so much sniping recently about portly people , it is
easy to forget those whose weight barely registers on the scales. Read More...
Tony Blair started it. We thought he was only
half-joking when in 2001 he proposed that drunken young men who engaged in
antisocial behaviour should be frogmarched to the nearest cash machine to atone
for their misdemeanours by way of an on-the-spot fine...