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Youth club closures affected GCSE results, warns IfS report

Youth club closures affected GCSE results, warns IfS report

Youth club closures in the 2010s resulted in lower GCSE results and increased offending among young people, a study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests. The report estimated that for every £1 saved from closing youth clubs, “there are societal costs of nearly £3”. The austerity programme enacted by the coalition government in 2010 resulted in huge cuts to council budgets, which resulted in swathes of youth club closures. Research earlier this year by Unison found 1,243 council-run youth centres closed between 2010 and 2023. The new Labour government has pledged to spend £95 million on a new network of “youth future” hubs, in which schools are expected to play a pivotal role. Closures affected GCSE grades The IfS compared exam results and offending rates among teenagers living in areas where all youth clubs within a 40-minute walk closed with those teenagers whose nearest youth club stayed open. It found teenagers whose nearest youth club closed did worse in school. The impact was “roughly equivalent to a decline of half a grade in one …

Cape Town’s most affected speak for themselves – Evidence & Policy Blog

Cape Town’s most affected speak for themselves – Evidence & Policy Blog

Laurence Piper, Gillian Black, Anna Wilson, Liezl Dick and Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa This blog post is based on the Evidence & Policy article, ‘Policy engagement as ‘empowered representation’: democratic mediation through a participatory research project on climate resilience’. Policy engagement is both a condition and moral obligation of publicly funded research projects in many countries, and our case in South Africa was no different. It was just relatively difficult. In 2019 we won a UKRI grant to do participatory research on how people living in poor settlements in Cape Town experience and respond to the climate-related hazards of water scarcity, floods and fires. The idea was to work closely with affected community members in understanding how they coped with these disasters, and what they thought could be done better in the future, by themselves and with help from others. We discussed our experiences in our recent article in Evidence and Policy, and summarise some of them here. These community participants then presented their experiences and ideas for climate resilience as ‘best bets’ to government officials in …

Tell us: have you been affected by GPs taking industrial action in England? | GPs

Tell us: have you been affected by GPs taking industrial action in England? | GPs

Almost half of GP surgeries in England are staging industrial action for the first time in 60 years amid a row over funding, a survey suggests. In a ballot run by the British Medical Association (BMA), 98% of family doctors voted in favour of taking collective action earlier this month in protest at the last government increasing their budget by only 1.9% this year. The new government has pledged to increase funding for 2024-25 to 6%. The study of 283 GP partners by Pulse magazine suggests 46% are already taking work-to-rule action, with more than a quarter (26%) limiting the number of patients seen each day to 25. If you’re a patient in England – do you think you’ve been affected by the action? Do you have concerns about pressures on GP practices? We’d also like to hear from GPs and other health workers. Share your experience Let us know how you’ve been impacted by GPs staging collecting action in the form below. Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is …

Nearly half of children born in Wales in 2002-3 classed as having special educational needs – this may have negatively affected their attainment

Nearly half of children born in Wales in 2002-3 classed as having special educational needs – this may have negatively affected their attainment

Nearly half of people born in Wales in 2002-2003 were classed as having special educational needs (SEN), our new research has indicated, raising questions about the system used to diagnose a generation of Welsh children. Our report for the Nuffield Foundation found that 48% of this group, who are now aged 20 to 22, were identified as having SEN at some point before they turned 17. In some cases, this may have negatively affected their educational outcomes. Pandemic disruptions meant complete data was only available for this year group. However, we also identified several factors that made some children born in Wales between 2002 and 2008 more likely to receive an SEN diagnosis – including being a boy, being born in summer, and being on free school meals. Our findings suggest children from these groups may have been over-identified (and those not in these groups potentially under-identified). A new system for identifying educational needs was introduced in Wales in 2020, and the number of children being diagnosed has since fallen significantly – it was 20% …

Nearly half of children born in Wales in 2002-3 classed as having special educational needs – this may have negatively affected their attainment

Nearly half of children born in Wales in 2002-03 classed as having special educational needs – this may have negatively affected their attainment

Nearly half of people born in Wales in 2002-03 were classed as having special educational needs (Sen), our new research has indicated, raising questions about the system used to diagnose a generation of Welsh children. Our report for the Nuffield Foundation found that 48% of this group, who are now aged 20 to 22, were identified as having Sen at some point before they turned 17. In some cases, this may have negatively affected their educational outcomes. Pandemic disruptions meant complete data was only available for this year group. However, we also identified several factors that made some children born in Wales between 2002 and 2008 more likely to receive a Sen diagnosis – including being a boy, being born in summer, and being on free school meals. Our findings suggest children from these groups may have been over-identified (and those not in these groups potentially under-identified). A new system for identifying educational needs was introduced in Wales in 2020, and the number of children being diagnosed has since fallen significantly – it was 20% …

Tell us: have you been affected by travel disruption ahead of the Paris Olympics? | Paris Olympic Games 2024

Tell us: have you been affected by travel disruption ahead of the Paris Olympics? | Paris Olympic Games 2024

France’s high-speed rail network has been hit by coordinated “malicious acts” including arson attacks that have brought major disruption to many of the country’s busiest rail lines hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. Eurostar journeys are also affected, with eighteen Eurostar trains due to run between London and Paris, but an unknown number having been cancelled. Travellers from London to Paris face 90-minute delays and train cancellations on the day of the Olympic Games opening ceremony. We’re interested to hear how people have been affected by the disruption, whether on the way to the Olympics in Paris or on other journeys or commutes. Share your experience Tell us if you’ve been affected by the travel disruption on the French train network this week. Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is encrypted and only the Guardian has access to your contributions. We will only use the data you provide us for the purpose of the feature and we will delete any personal data when we no longer require it for …

It’s 4 days later and Delta is still affected by the CrowdStrike outage. Here’s why.

It’s 4 days later and Delta is still affected by the CrowdStrike outage. Here’s why.

Most of the world has slowly recovered from the devastating CrowdStrike and Microsoft outages that hamstrung countless businesses and industries last Friday. One airline, however, is still struggling early this week. Delta Airlines is still dealing with numerous cancelled flights and delays. It’s become clear the airline has had a much more difficult time getting back on its feet than other companies across nearly all sectors of the economy. Around midday Tuesday, more than 455 Delta flights had been cancelled, far outpacing any other airline, according to data from FlightAware. It also had more than 650 delays. Why is Delta so slow on getting back on its feet? Computer systems in airports, at airlines, and pretty much everywhere else went down Friday, but Delta has had unique struggles trying to recover. The issue with Delta largely stems from a crew-tracking tool that relies on Windows, leaving the airline in a difficult position as it tried to manage the overwhelming schedule changes caused by the outages. Mashable Light Speed “The technology issue occurred on the busiest …

Tell us: how have you been affected by the outage linked to Windows PCs? | Microsoft IT outage

Tell us: how have you been affected by the outage linked to Windows PCs? | Microsoft IT outage

Widespread outage linked to Windows workstations caused by a CrowdStrike software update has affected major companies such as Sky News UK, Melbourne Airport and Thameslink and infrastructure, including health services around the world. Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline after blue screen of death error screens were seen on Windows workstations across the globe. George Kurtz, the founder and chief executive of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, has said the company is “deeply sorry for impact that we’ve caused to customers.” Kurtz told NBC’s Today Show in the US that the problem was down to a bug in a single update. “We identified this very quickly and remediated the issue,” he said, adding that CrowdStrike was now “working with each and every customer to make sure that we can bring them back online”. If you’ve been affected by the outage, we’d like to hear from you. Share your experience Let us know how you’ve been affected by the global outage linked to Windows PCs in the …

Global IT outage hits companies around the world as planes grounded and train services affected | World News

Global IT outage hits companies around the world as planes grounded and train services affected | World News

Businesses including banks, airlines, train companies, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been affected by a mass global IT outage. Major US airlines including American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines have been grounded, while airports in Germany, Amsterdam and Spain are also reporting issues. The outage was related to a Microsoft Windows PC update rolled out by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike – and while the company says a fix has been deployed, an expert has warned it could take “weeks” for all computers and systems to be fully restored. According to an alert sent by CrowdStrike to its clients, the company’s falcon sensor software caused Microsoft Windows to crash and display a blue screen, which has begun to be referred to as the “blue screen of death”. Read more:Outages latest: Follow liveWhat has been impacted and where? Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 3:29 ‘This is not a cyber attack’ Image: Numerous passengers wait in front of blank display board at Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport. Pic: AP CrowdStrike …