Call for rethink of youth policies

This from Young People Now

The chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs has called for an urgent rethink of government policy towards young people.
Dawn Butler, the Labour MP for Brent South, makes the demand in an essay for an Institute for Public Policy Affairs (IPPR) study, Politics for a New Generation, which was published on Monday (14 May).

In the essay Butler and co-author Julia Margo, research fellow at IPPR, highlight a number of measures to tackle the problems young people face in society, including "reinventing our civic spaces so that they are more child-friendly" and to "support families in spending more time with their children".

Margo said: "The most concerning thing we found was that people think the problems with young people is representative of society as a whole and of a decline in morality."