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Animal welfare at the Grand National has come under scrutiny again after a horse died on the first day of the meeting at Aintree. Battlefront was p...
On Wednesday, politicians, journalists, youth workers and young people exchanged views at the Class of 2012 debate hosted by Channel 4 News and Channel 4's Battlefront on the subject of youth unemployment. Appropriately enough, the tag line for the first session was "The Lost Generation."
In my opinion, youth unemployment is no longer a problem, but a disaster. When I saw the Battlefront job advertised I was attracted to it because it was a chance to use my journalistic skills and tackle a subject that has had a huge impact on me. It's something that had me feeling pretty low for a long time and I don't think it's fair young people should have to lower their expectations just because their environment or the economic climate they live in isn't prospering. I'm tackling youth unemployment because young people today are quickly becoming disillusioned with their lives and ambitions.
A teenager from East London has launched a campaign to make peer-to-peer sex education compulsory in schools, with the aim of ensuring every pupil in ...
We find that young people teaching other young people about sex and relationships just makes sense. Young people don't want to talk about their private parts and sex lives to an adult 30 years their senior or to someone who will then teach them history, maths or whatever subject they double up in!
