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The number of 16 to 24-year-olds branded as "Neet" - not in education, employment or training - is set to reach its highest point since records began, said the Local Government Association. Teenagers and young adults from white backgrounds are around 20 per cent more likely to be out of work or training than those from black and Asian families, it was disclosed, while women are worse hit than men.
To read the article in full, click here£1 Million Asylum Project Highlights failures in the Asylum System
The pilot scheme that managed to return one family home to their country of origin for £1 million has been widely reported in the media this week. It is a clear demonstration that the current asylum system is ineffective, and pouring more money into it is wasteful.
The Centre for Social Justices 'Asylum Matters' report called for urgent and radical reform of the UK's asylum system leading to greater voluntary return. If done right, more failed asylum seekers will return voluntarily at much less financial and emotional cost. 'Asylum Matters' highlighted that it is much more efficient to return a failed asylum seeker voluntarily (£1,100) than to enforce a return (£11,000).
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Tory MP Tobias Ellwood attacked after confronting Bournemouth gang – Guardian 21/6/09
The
former army officer was taken to hospital with hearing damage
after attempting to put a stop to disruptive gang
behaviour. I want case to go to trial, says
Bournemouth East MP.
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Worldwide production of heroin and cocaine falling, says UN drug chief – Guardian 24/6/09
The UN is calling for the treatment of drug
problems as an illness, not a crime. Antonio Maria Costa,
director of the UNODC, claims that "People who take drugs need
medical help, not criminal retribution." The continuing challenge
of monitoring and addressing the problems of drug production
needs to focus on traffickers.
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£1m asylum return scheme helped one family – Guardian 24/6/09
Children's Society says project was a
failed opportunity to deal with 2,000 children locked up in
immigration centres. Despite the ‘good intentions’ of the
scheme, which aimed to help keep families out of asylum centres,
only one family successfully returned
home.
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Why frontline childcare workers are the unsung heroes
Residential staff and family social workers
deserve more credit for the contribution they make to the lives
of many of our vulnerable young people. Rather than taking
responsibility for our failure, it is argued that we too often
blame the staff or their managers.
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£1m migrant’s project ‘a scandal’ – BBC 24/6/09
A £1m government scheme to help failed asylum
seekers and their children return home resulted in just one
family leaving Britain, the BBC has learned.
In an attempt to bring down the high numbers
of child detentions, the UK Border Agency set up the one-year
pilot project.
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How discipline saved a sink school – The Times 24/6/09
Struggling schools across the country may
become part of a project making plans for highly paid
“superheads” to strengthen them by helping them to merge with
top-performing schools to form not-for-profit successful
“chains”.
The new push to force the worst
schools into mergers with their more successful counterparts
comes after the Government revealed last week that, on average,
60,700 primary and secondary school pupils bunk off school every
day.
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A programme in Lambeth is successfully using peer counselling to steer young people away from gangs. The development by Lambeth council of the 2 XL programme, which uses leadership training along with one to one therapy to encourage young people to change their lifestyle, aims to tackle the problem of reoffending.
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Government aims high with diversity targets – Guardian 19/6/09
Harriet Harman tells public sector employers to stop 'fishing in same pool' and increase representation of women, ethnic minorities and disabled people on the payroll. By 2011, the government wants 50% of appointments to be women, 14% to be disabled people and 11% to be from an ethnic minority background. Harman claims that diversity is necessary to ensure decisions are made by people with wide experience of life.To read the article in full, click here
