For information from Lancashire's Young People's Service including details of the new Lancashire Members of the Youth Parliament, download a copy of News 4YOUth - issue 8 below.

Fishwick Millan Football Club, based in Samuel Street, Preston, are organising a summer football tournament to be held at St. Theresa's Astro, in Preston. For any further information regarding this event please contact Abdul Khan 07525 921053. Deadline date for team entry is 24 July.

Preston's district forum for groups working with children and young people has produced its annual report. The Preston forum is one of 12 district based forums, supported by Young Lancashire, for local groups to engage in decision making processes about the work and funding for children and young people's services in their district. For more details...

Young Lancashire member Youth Action has launched a summer programme of activities. For details...

Children Matter East, the East of England's forum for voluntary and community sector organisations that work with children, young people and their families, has published a report, The VCS Contribution to the Delivery of Effective Outcomes for Children, Young People and Their Families in the East and South East Regions of England. It shows that youth work charities are successfully improving outcomes for young people but are hampered by commissioners' excessive demands for data.

The Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) has published the National Commissioning Framework  and its annexes, which scope out a new system to plan and manage around £10 billion of public funds and sets out in some detail the roles and responsibilities of all the participants in the process.

A Bill to provide a system of national service for young persons; and for connected purposes. More information visit: Parliament UK

The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has agreed savings of £15m for 2010-11 with the Department for Education (DfE) and has confirmed a revised remit with a strong emphasis on cost-effective delivery to support front-line services. The savings mostly affect CWDC's communications spend and pilot programmes, which includes the confirmation that the pilot on Youth Professional Status will now not proceed. CWDC has confirmed that the third sector workforce capacity building training project with NCVYS and the YMCA George Williams College will continue.

The High Court has ruled that plans for children leaving care must be reviewed by a social worker rather than a personal adviser. The judgment was made at the High Court in relation to a case of an 18-year-old care leaver whose "pathway plan" review was carried out by his personal adviser and not a social worker. Mr Justice Parker said that this was unlawful as personal advisers are employed as an intermediary between social workers and care leavers.

4Children have published Unlocking the potential of young people in Knowsley. The inquiry into the lives of young people in Knowsley has led a panel of national experts to devise a new blueprint for broadening the aspirations and horizons of young people in deprived areas. Among recommendations in the report is for councils in areas of high social deprivation to recruit a peer mentor to help every young person classified as Neet (not in education, employment or training).