Greg Philo examines the recent rise in violent street crime, identifying the Tory-led economic and social uphevals of the 1980s as key contributing factors to the sense of dispossesion, anomie and alienation felt by young people today.

In the last 12 months, 19 young people under the age of 27, many of them in their teens, have committed suicide in and around South Wales. Dave O’Sullivan explores this saddening trend by considering how young people today are too often regarded as a problem, not as society’s greatest asset and its future.

This is the executive summary of ‘A Tale of Two Englands – ‘Race’ and Violent Crime in the Press’, by the Runnymede Trust. The report analyses newspaper articles over a two month period, and identifies clear differential patterns in the way in which the press reports on violent crime.

Deborah Coles and Helen Shaw criticise the government for a lack of will to engage with the systemic failures highlighted by tragic deaths in detention settings.

The Voice reports on a huge rise in the number of teenagers being killed on the streets of London.

Young people need to capitalise on the feelings that made us demonstrate against the Iraq war in 2003, and join today’s demonstration. Lena de Casparis will be there.

Life for children in Britain is incredibly difficult, writes Richard Seymour, caught as they are between increasing poverty and violent abuse on the one hand and relentless demonisation and authoritarian “clamp downs” on the other.

Liz Smith looks at a report showing how the education system is failing a generation of British youth.