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Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether schools are required to conduct health and safety assessments in workplaces agreeing to take pupils on work experience placements; and if he will make a statement. [214077]
Jim Knight: Schools have the primary duty of care for their students and must ensure that health and safety risk assessments are carried out for work experience placements. Assessments are frequently carried out on schools' behalf by education business partnership organisations. Employers are responsible for the health and safety of everyone on their premises. 95 per cent. of young people participate in work experience, amounting to over half a million placements each year within which the track record of health and safety is excellent reflecting the care that schools and employers take to keep young people safe and to maximise the benefits of work experience.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the youth justice reforms introduced in 1998. [211552]
Beverley Hughes: The Youth Justice Board and local multi-agency youth offending teams were established in 1998 under the Crime and Disorder Act. A key role of the Youth Justice Board is to monitor the performance of, and standards for, the youth justice system. Its work is a key driver for the improvements the system has seen since the reforms introduced in 1998, and its ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of the system continues to influence policy on tackling youth crime and bringing about further improvements.
Youth offending teams were described by the Audit Commission in Youth Justice 2004 as
a good example of a flexible, multi-disciplinary approach to service delivery from which other public sector partnerships could learn.
In general, the new youth justice arrangements were described by the Audit Commission as
a significant improvement and a good model for delivering public services.
The Audit Commission also identified that following the reforms to the youth justice system young offenders are more likely to receive an intervention, young offenders are dealt with more quickly, young offenders are more likely to make amends for their wrong-doing, and magistrates are very satisfied with the service they receive from Youth offending teams.
Notable examples of improvements to the youth justice system are:
Figures for 2005-06 and 2006-07 show that the number of first time entrants to the criminal justice system has reduced from 97,329 in 2005-06 to 93,730 in 2006-07.
Self-reported youth offending levels are relatively stable, with about 25 per cent. of young people admitting to offending in the previous year although only a minority of this is serious and/or persistent.
The national statistics published in May 2008 showed a reduction of 17.4 per cent. in the frequency rate of re-offending between 2000 and 2005. The results also show that the percentage of offenders who re-offended over a one year period fell from 40.2 per cent. in 2000 to 38.4 per cent. in 2005.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which projects in the UK are funded under the Youth in Action programme of the European Union. [214168]
Beverley Hughes: The list shows those organisations so far approved in 2008 to receive funding from the UK National Agency under the European Unions Youth in Action programme by action type. An organisation appears in the list more than once where it has been approved for funding for more than one project.
Records are not held by the UK for projects under this programme that are funded directly from the European Commission. These projects are therefore excluded from the list.
Theatr Fforwm Cymru
Clubs for young people Wales
Point Europa
Portland Area Youth
The Mendip Centre
Devon and Cornwall Housing
KPC YOUTH
St. Comgalls Parish Youth Centre
Portadown YMCA
NEELB YOUTH SERVICE
Birches Community Association
Patrician Youth Centre
Brownlow Area Youth Project
Brownlow Area Youth Project
East Belfast Area Youth Project
Reach Across
Reach Across
Reach Across
Reepham International Community Group
Impact Youth Group
Stockport Youth Service: the Duke of Edinburgh AwardGold exploration group
CSV Training and Enterprise North
Leeds college of music
Go Away and Learn GOAL
Percy Hedley Foundation
East Durham Youth in Action
Evenwood and AYCC joint youth project
Grey Lodge Settlement
South Lanarkshire Council, Youth Learning Services
Motherwell
Motherwell
Scripture Union England and Wales
Littlehampton Rangers
Groundwork North Northants
Leicester Stars Football Club
St. Matthews Community Solution Centre
Norfolk county council
South London Somali Society
Albert and Friends Instant Circus
Theatre Royal Stratford East
National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS)
Lido Youth and Culture Association
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC Youth Forum)
MeWe Art and Education
Middlesbrough Youth Service
4(th) Lymm Scout Group
NEELB Youth Service
Patrician Youth Centre
Spirit of Enniskillen Trust
Corpus Christi Youth Centre
Spirit of Enniskillen Trust
Inside Out
Lewis and Harris Youth Clubs Association
Perth and District YMCA
Loch Lomond Pilgrimage Centre
Muirhouse Youth Development Group (MYDG)
CHAICommunity Help and Advice Initiative
St. Ninians Church Youth Challenge
Bathgate PHAB Club
Grey Lodge Settlement
Scottish Youth Dance
Tullochan Trust
CHAICommunity Help and Advice Initiative
The Southside Project
Bishops Green Youth Project
Robert Elkins for Oxfordshire County Council Youth Service
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council (BDCB)
Callington and District Twinning AssociationCADTA
Bristol City Council
Wiltshire County Council Youth Development Service
Devon Federation of Young Farmers Club
Devon and Cornwall Housing Association
1(st) Wellington Scout Group
Cheddar Baptist Church Youth Group
Pen-y-sarn Youth Club
Wrexham Borough Council
BISYOC
Pit Stop 2000
Now or Never Generation
The Urban Art Project
Vertigo theatre drama group
Minority of Europe
Next Generation
Carmarthen Post 16
Hackney Remixed
Matt Roberts Arts Group
Lewisham Young Mayors
Youth promoters Leeds (Everything is possible)
Action 2, European Voluntary Service
A Rocha
Belfast Community Circus School
Bryson HouseUlster Wildlife Trust
Bryson HouseRNIB Northern Ireland
Café Project
Concordia
CSV 2008 R1
CVNI
Depaul Trust
Depaul Trust Northern Ireland
Ecoseeds
Edinburgh Cyrenians
EIL Tools for Self Reliance
EIL Upton Warren
EIL First Key
EIL YMCA Winchester
EIL Malvern Hills
EIL YMCA Fairthorne
The Forest
ICP Cardigan Bay
ICP Sea Trust
ICP Meeting of Minds
ICYE Cambridge Cyrenians
ICYE Delos
Leonard Cheshire Seven Rivers
Options for Life
Point Europa
Public Achievement
StudentForce
SWYM
UNA
West London YMCA
UCAN2
Edinburgh University Settlement
ICYE
ICYE
Action Reconciliation Service for Peace
Bath YMCA
British Red Cross
Bryson Charitable GroupHI Nl
Bryson Charitable GroupQueens Uni
Bryson Charitable GroupUWT
CSV
EILFirst Key
EILRomford YMCA
EILSlimbridge Wildfowl
EILWorcester YMCA
Everythings PossibleArts
Everythings PossibleYouth
Grey Lodge Settlement
ICYECambridge Cyrenians
ICYEDelos
ICYETreloar Trust
MYDG
National Trust
Options for Life
Pestalozzi
Point Europa
Southwell House
Student Force
Time for God
Tools for Solidarity
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