Foyer Newsround
29-11-12
Top stories
1. “18 year old East Thames Barking and Dagenham Foyer resident, Chris Adams, has reached the finals of the E=mc2 Start Up Business of the Year competition with his mobile hairdressing business “Baseline”
2. ACEVO has launched a review of the Work Program.
http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/news/content/13921/acevo_launches_review_of_work_programme
3. The LSE and Orbit Group have published a report into the top five community investment priorities for housing associations. One of the 5 is “Youth activities, support and job access” and the report used peer researchers to gather evidence and the views of the community.
Foyer news
“18 year old East Thames Barking and Dagenham Foyer resident, Chris Adams, has reached the finals of the E=mc2 Start Up Business of the Year competition with his mobile hairdressing business “Baseline”
What the President of SMMT said in their dinner speech about us.
https://www.smmt.co.uk/2012/11/presidents-annual-dinner-speech-27-november-2012/
Independent Futures’ Plymouth Foyer have opened a new two bed ‘training’ flat.
Young people
Paul Goggins (MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East, Manchester) “For young people who grow up in care the transition into adulthood can often appear something of a cliff edge.” and more financial support is needed.
Stephen Twigg on the Ofsted Annual Review and “We Must be Ambitious for All Our Young People”
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/stephen-twigg/we-must-be-ambitious-for-_b_2204760.html
“Researchers have identified a pattern in the way that some young people think about emotional information that could be used to help identify teenagers at risk of developing depression and anxiety.”
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2012/News/WTP040836.htm
Youth labour market
10.5% of the UK workforce (including 20% of young people) are under employed in that they want to and are able to work more hours. Underemployment reduces unemployment up to a point after which it starts to entrench unemployment as those in work but underemployed compete for any additional work hours.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20509189
The Work Program was a key clashing point at PMQs yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/28/cameron-miliband-clash-work-programme
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/11/david-cameron-ed-miliband-work-programme-pmqs/
Boris is launching his own workfare program in London that will be similar to the national scheme.
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/11/boris-johnson-london-work-programme/
David Miliband chaired a North London youth jobs summit yesterday.
CVS stories
ACEVO has launched a review of the Work Program.
http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/news/content/13921/acevo_launches_review_of_work_programme
“HMRC has released three new guides to help users complete its most popular charity forms, including making gift aid claims.”
http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/news/content/13919/new_guides_from_hmrc_to_help
The Big Lottery Fund is investing £6.9m into the Lloyds Banking Group Social Entrepreneurs Programme.
Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke and Christopher Snowdon continue their criticism of the voluntary sector, focusing on supposed money wasting and unpopular fundraising methods by the UK’s biggest charities. You can read my blog on this topic in the December issue of Campaign Central.
New US tax evasion laws will place a burden on UK charities receiving donations from the US or holding assets in the US.
Housing
The LSE and Orbit Group have published a report into the top five community investment priorities for housing associations. One of the 5 is “Youth activities, support and job access” and the report used peer researchers to gather evidence and the views of the community.
“The private sector cannot be the only answer to London’s housing problems. The capital’s property market serves the demands of the wealthy and global speculators, rather than the needs of the majority”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/housing-network/2012/nov/28/london-property-foreign-investors-housing
“Three factors that make a supported housing scheme a success”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/nov/28/supported-housing-scheme
Politics
Ahead of the Leveson Inquiry part 1 report “What is Press Regulation? – Six Different Models”
http://inforrm.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/what-is-media-regulation-six-different-models/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20537029
A blog on Conservative Home that argues young people’s knowlege of their local communities, social networks and experience of using services makes them well qualified to run for their local councils.
Just an updated version of the same article yesterday on Labour considering putting votes for 16 year olds in their manifesto. If you feel like reading 100% disadvantaged thinking about young people and random racism then scroll through the comments.
Other news
Africa’s growing young population and implication for their future higher education
The Foyer Federation Open Talent 