News round-up: Boris Johnson’s youth strategy rejected


Boris Johnson’s youth strategy rejected
Boris Johnson’s youth strategy ran into immediate problems yesterday when the Scouts and Girl Guides refused to co-operate with his plan to force young offenders and troubled teenagers to join their ranks.

Read this story in The Times today


Mother jailed for smothering son with pillow
A mother who suffocated her three-year-old son with a pillow then logged on to a dating website to find a boyfriend hours later, has been jailed for life.

Read this story in The Daily Telegraph today

GPs get £100 for checks on people with learning difficulties
Family doctors are to be paid £100 a time for carrying out an annual health check on people with learning disabilities, after an official inquiry warned that they were suffering avoidable ill health and even premature death because their needs were being ignored.

Read this story in The Guardian today

Public lack facts on community orders, say MPs
The confidence of the public and the courts in the use of community sentences is being undermined by a lack of information about their effectiveness, according to a Commons committee report today.

Read this story in The Guardian today

Penalty ends for ‘topping up’ care
Thousands of patients will learn today that they can pay for the latest drugs to “top up” care from the NHS.

Read this story in The Times today

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