The Home Office, Department of Environment Transport and the Regions and the Department for Education and Employment. are jointly funding schemes to support disaffected young people The Youth Inclusion Programme will create dynamic local based programmes in at least 70 high crime areas. Each scheme will work with 40 to 50 young people, aged 13 to 16, and aim to divert them away from crime in a way which will benefit them and the communities in which they live.Local residents will be involved in managing, designing and delivering the schemes in partnership with Youth Offending Teams. The schemes could include family link centres based in primary schools, skill centres aimed at providing excluded young people with qualifications, mentoring schemes to provide help, advice and support and volunteering schemes to encourage young people to get involved in voluntary activity within their communities. There will also be sports facilities and support services for parents.

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The plan to introduce super nurses to the NHS and pay them 42,000 pounds per year is moving forward. Local health service chiefs have been asked to identify opportunities to establish nurse, midwife and health visitor consultant posts. Detailed guidance has been issued which will ensure that all posts conform to a common core of expectations, ensuring national consistency. Job descriptions will be designed at the local level and tailored to the service and field of practice in which they are established.The nurse, midwife and health visitor consultants will spend at least 50% of their time working directly with clients, patients or communities. They will also provide professional leadership and consultancy to colleagues,
contribute to the education, training and development of other staff, and undertake practice and service development, research and evaluation.

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