The next chief executive of The National Youth Agency will bring a background in education and training to the role. The board of The NYA has selected Fiona Blacke, currently regional director (learning, planning and performance) for the Learning and Skills Council in Yorkshire and the Humber, for the coveted post. She is a former chief executive of Connexions Tees Valley, as well as a trained youth worker. Before moving to England five years ago she was deputy chief executive and director of youth issues at the Scottish Community Education Council.
Asda has said that it will pay staff who are under 18 years old the same hourly rate of pay as older workers. The Leeds-based supermarket chain said it had taken the decision in the light of anti-age discrimination laws which came into force on Sunday. An Asda spokeswoman said: We no longer think it's acceptable to have different pay rates for different age groups.
Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, research suggests. Boys and girls had "less problematic behaviour" involving sex, drugs and drink than teenagers surveyed in 1985.
Did you know a high-pitched "dog whistle" device is to be used by police in north Staffordshire to stop groups of nuisance youths hanging around shops. The Mosquito sends out a pulsing 80-decibel frequency noise which can usually only be heard by teenagers and those in their early 20s.
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