The Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008 was given Royal assent, following a third reading. The Act provided for the reinvestment of money from unclaimed assets in dormant bank accounts in the wider community. Money would be distributed via the Big Lottery Fund to youth services, and to financial capability and inclusion programmes.
Source: Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008, HM Treasury, TSO (0870 600 5522) | House of Commons Hansard, Debate 3 November 2008, columns 23-91, TSO
Links: Text of Act | HOC research brief | Hansard
Date: 2008-Nov
The Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill was given a second reading. The Bill provided for the reinvestment of money from unclaimed assets in dormant bank accounts in the wider community. Money would be distributed via the Big Lottery Fund to youth services, and to financial capability and inclusion programmes.
Source: Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill, HM Treasury, TSO (0870 600 5522) | House of Commons Hansard, Debate 6 October 2008, columns 39-103, TSO
Links: Text of Bill | Explanatory notes | Hansard | HOC research brief
Date: 2008-Oct
A think-tank report said that there was no evidence base to support the assertion that youth mentoring raised educational attainment or helped to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. Mentors were too often inexperienced, unsuited to the task, barely trained, and lightly supervised – yet were expected to turn round the lives of some of the most troubled youths.
Source: Richard Meier, Youth Mentoring: A Good Thing?, Centre for Policy Studies (020 7222 4488)
Links: Report
Date: 2008-Sep
Researchers examined the operation of the Youth Opportunity Fund and Youth Capital Fund (established in April 2006 to improve the provision of positive activities for young people, by giving young people the power to decide how this funding should be spent in their area). Young people were found to have been increasingly efficient and confident in scrutinizing applications. Panel members valued the responsibility and power that they had been given.
Source: Sarah Golden et al., Outcomes of the Youth Opportunity Fund/Youth Capital Fund, Research Report RR046, Department for Children, Schools and Families (0845 602 2260)
Date: 2008-Aug
A report said that careers information, advice, and guidance for young people had been neglected by government and was 'inadequate'.
Source: Inspiration and Aspiration: Realising our Potential in the 21st Century, Skills Commission/National Skills Forum (020 7202 8575)
Links: Report | NSF press release | Guardian report
Date: 2008-Apr
An article said that the process of service integration in Connexions was limited, and offered two main types of explanations. The first set concentrated on the changes brought to the professional role of Connexions workers. The second used the example provided by interagency links between schools and the Connexions service in order to explore the role played by power relations to explain limitations to integration.
Source: Kepa Artaraz, 'Going full circle? Integrating provision for young people in the Connexions Service', Social Policy and Society, Volume 7 Issue 2
Links: Abstract
Date: 2008-Apr