They said health workers "too often find barriers in the personal opinions of senior staff, e.g. senior managers will not allow condom distribution by local authority youth workers".

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It has become a symbol for everyone's struggle of the government versus the street, of the revival of the political left, of youth resistance to authority and of France holding on to its cherished social protections in a world of encroaching globalization.

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The scheme, backed by the Northumberland National Park Authority and Youth Hostel Association (YHA), will also create 60 full-time jobs.

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Groups can request and get more than one piano, as the New York City Housing Authority's youth chorus had done.

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The authority said tackling youth unemployment was a top priority and said that in the last year it had taken on 391 young people as part of its modern apprenticeship scheme.

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Its No Knives Better Lives initiative, which has been rolled out across 10 local authority areas, uses work in schools and youth schemes, diversionary activities and advertising to discourage knife carrying.

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President Obama was in the West Bank for the first time since 2008 on the second day of his visit to the Middle East, where he held meetings in Ramallah with Palestinian Authority President Abbas and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad, and attended a cultural event at Al-Bireh Youth Center.

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