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The state of children’s mental health services 2020/21
A dramatic rise in serious mental health conditions in children over the last three years has been revealed in a damning report by the children’s commissioner for England.
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UK Poverty Report 20/21 from JRF has shown that even before coronavirus, millions of people in our society were living precarious and insecure lives. In many instances, coronavirus has swept them deeper into poverty, as well as dragging others under, many of whom will have not experienced this situation before
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Prince’s Trust and EPI - Young People’s Mental and Emotional Health.
The report shows how the mental health and wellbeing of young people in Generation Z deteriorates as they enter their teenage years – with girls in particular seeing a big drop in their wellbeing and self-esteem in their mid-teens. The research also looks at the factors driving this, finding that all of the following have a negative impact on the mental health and wellbeing of young people: lower family income, heavy social media use, being bullied, and infrequent exercise
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Building Commonality Anne Frank Trust Impact Report 2020
Young people participating in education programmes run by the Anne Frank Trust UK benefit from “significant and long-lasting anti-prejudice outcomes”,
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Impact of Covid-19 on the BAME community and voluntary sector: A follow up
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Teen Mental Health – A Guide for Parents
A blog to support parents with their child's mental health
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This report looks at the impact of insecure housing on children and young people. It reviews previous studies on the impact on health and finds that children who frequently move home are likely to have worse health outcomes (both physical and mental) and that this can follow through to adulthood.
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Action for Children – Giving care leavers the chance to stay: Staying Put six years on
This new report explores how to make sure all young people leaving foster care can keep living with their carers once they turn 18, if that’s what they want. Research shows that many young people in foster care still have to move out before they are ready. This is primarily because of a lack of funding
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AS ONE… NOT ALONE. Tackling youth loneliness through youth work and healthy relationships.
produced by UK Youth
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State of the Nation 2020 Children & Young People's Wellbeing
A report on wellbeing in children and young people in 2020
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Updated Guidance for delivering youth work during Covid 19
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Covid 19 - Red Readiness Fact Sheet
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its ADHD awareness month - here is a personal blog to deepen our understanding
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New national guidance for local authorities on providing youth services is another important guide which has been published. It sets out clear levels of youth work support for areas. Please read, and pass on. You can download a copy from our website here
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The curriculum will enable a greater understanding of youth work practice, provide an educational framework and act as a reference tool to be used by decision makers, policy makers, commissioners, youth workers and young people. Youth Focus North East are part of the development team for this important document.
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Prince’s Trust - Aspirations Gap.
more than a third of young people (39%) claim to have abandoned their aspirations for the year ahead, with this increasing significantly among those young people surveyed who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs)
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StreetDoctors, Redthread and MAC-UK surveyed young people who use their services to find out how lockdown affected their lives and their communities, and how we as a nation could better support them. The report offers insights into the experiences of some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people, and makes urgent recommendations for local and national leaders
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Vulnerability in childhood: a public health informed approach
The report looks at identifying and meeting needs, reducing risk and building protective factors. It also outlines PHE resources that can be used to inform multi-agency approaches to addressing childhood vulnerability. PHE have also published an additional report describing the extent and nature of vulnerability in childhood in England
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This report examines the arrangements introduced in 15 local authority children's social care departments in England during the coronavirus pandemic. Discusses: referrals of concerns about children's welfare; working with families in a pandemic; contact with families; child protection conferences; contact between children and birth families; foster care; placements; care leavers and unaccompanied young people seeking asylum; residential homes; and multi-agency working.
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Levelling Up Our Communities Report - Danny Kruger MP
details proposals for a new social covenant and sets out a vision for a more local, more human, less bureaucratic, less centralised society in which people are supported and empowered to play an active role in their neighbourhoods. The report highlights that it is estimated that up to a million young people may face unemployment in the coming years
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The Digital Divide: Internet Access for Care Leaves
This report was undertaken in partnership with the Network of Regional Youth Units and the National House Project. This work gathered the views of 90 care experienced young people on their digital access during Covid19. The focus for the review was to gain insight into the impact of digital exclusion on young people and influence future planning and delivery to ensure that young people are not adversely affected by digital poverty in the current climate.
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Sheffield Youth Voice Matters Report 2020
Covid19 has had a disproportionate effect upon the lives and future prospects of Sheffield’s children and young people. The city’s youth-led voluntary sector have pulled together a report on this impact through the Children and Young People’s Partnership Network: Youth Voice Matters Report. Please find attached a copy of the report. We are calling on all statutory and voluntary sector organisations and leaders to work with us to ensure our City is doing the best we can to support young people. We would like to share our report more widely to show how the VCS sector in Sheffield is responding to Covid collectively and wondered if you would be interested in sharing the work we have done. The key recommendations are around 1. Mental health 2. Education 3. Employment 4. Youth services 5. Racial equity
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Video Resource - Understanding and responding to youth criminality toolkit
As part of the Early Intervention Youth Fund (EIYF) and Programme Precision, a video toolkit has been created by West Yorkshire Police as a resource to look at the current issues young people may experience or have experienced around criminality. Concerns such as involvement in drugs, drug addiction and violence are discussed in a real life based format. There are 3 videos that make up the toolkit: 1. Pathways into criminality 2. Drug addiction 3. Early intervention / diversionary work Each video has a lesson plan and activity for delivery in groups.
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Approaches to Youth Participation in Youth & Community Work Practice
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Open access youth work review Phoebe Hill
In summary, this narrative presents a compelling picture of the need for youth work in London and beyond, and the impact and influence of youth work in the lives of young people. While it represents the original and commendable work of its author, Dr Phoebe Hill, the drivers for this review were established through numerous discussions and events in London as part of the Cornerstone Fund partnership, ‘Setting the research agenda with, and for, young people’
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My Future My Feelings My Family
“It is a snapshot in time about the pressures young carers and young adult carers are facing, it also sets out what they need now more than ever as we live with and beyond a pandemic. Carers Trust is re-igniting the national conversation about how we can work together to ensure young carers and young adult carers get the recognition they deserve and the support they need to live the lives they want.”
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Experiences of Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Seventy per cent of parents, who have experienced child and adolescent-to-parent violence, saw an increase in violent episodes during lockdown, according to a report from researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester
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National Youth Agency - Young people's health and wellbeing report on young people’s mental and physical health and wellbeing in response to the coronavirus crisis
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The Good Childhood Report 2020
the report draws together a variety of national and international sources that examine children’s self-reported well-being. ‘Well-being’ is used to refer to a range of things in everyday life, such as being happy, not being ill, feeling fulfilled and being financially secure.
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The 2020 World Youth Report “Youth Social Entrepreneurship and the 2030 Agenda
The report calls on governments and other decision-makers to remove obstacles to youth social entrepreneurship, such as access to start-up funds that are presently limiting the ability of young people to engage in profitable activities
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Unregulated - Children in care living in semi-independent accommodation September 2020
Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England, has produced a report revealing how thousands of children in care are living in unregulated independent or semi-independent accommodation, ranging from a flat to a hostel or bedsit, and in the worst cases caravans, tents and in one case even a barge.
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UNICEF - Child Well Being Report Card 16
A new UNICEF report on child well-being, warns of a 'looming children's crisis', highlighting poor mental health, increasing obesity and low literacy among UK children, ranking the UK 27th in a list of 41 high-income countries
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The Space Between Us - Children’s mental health and wellbeing in isolated areas
Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in Isolated Areas Report investigated the impact of geographic isolation on the mental health and wellbeing of children aged 8-13.
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the Yorkshire & the Humber Children & Young People’s Mental Health Clinical Network have created a guide for education settings on how to respond to mental health and emotional wellbeing needs which have arisen because of COVID-19.
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Our Place - Local authorities and the public’s mental health report
presents learning from local areas alongside an overview of the evidence for prevention and the national policy context.
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Transitions to Adulthood: Improving the life chances of care leavers.
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Teen body image and self-esteem A practical guide for parents
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Barnardos - New Term New Challenges New Opportunities
Barnardo’s NI has published a report looking at teachers' views and experiences on the impact of lockdown, the return to school for pupils, and what help they will need to support the mental health and wellbeing of pupils. A survey of 167 education professionals across Northern Ireland found that nearly 90% of respondents thought that the pandemic was likely to have an impact on the mental health and wellbeing of pupils. Recommendations to government include: prioritising mental health and wellbeing in the recovery curriculum and increasing funding and investment in mental health and wellbeing services in schools.
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Revolving Doors - Racial Bias Is Pulling Black Young Adults Into The Revolving Door
Revolving Doors - Racial Bias Is Pulling Black Young Adults Into The Revolving Door A report by the Revolving Doors Agency into racial bias in the criminal justice system warns that black adults aged 18 to 24 are “significantly more likely to be dragged into the criminal justice system for relatively low-level and non-violent offences, such as theft or minor drug offences, rather than being given the support they need”.
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Open Access Youth Work: A Narrative Review of Impact
this narrative presents a compelling picture of the need for youth work in London and beyond, and the impact and influence of youth work in the lives of young people.
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young people’s health report, published by the NYA and Brook charity, it highlights the disproportionate impact that Covid 19 is having on young people’s health and wellbeing, and the urgent need for this to be prioritised.
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Advice from IF-Do on delivering Safer Youth Clubs
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The State of Child Poverty 2020
Buttle UK have today published 'The State of Child Poverty 20' - a unique insight into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic inside the homes of some of the most vulnerable families in the UK.
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National Food Strategy part one July 20
The aim of this independent review is to rethink how the whole food system should work, from farm to fork.
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Living Standards Audit July 20
This report looks at how households were faring before the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, but also presents how the incomes of different groups were affected during the height of the lockdown.
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Psychology of Loneliness report July 20
Why it matters and what we can do
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Community Mobilisation July 20
this report is a helpful guide on how to unlock the potential of community power
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NYA Covid Response July 20
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YVC Final Report July 20
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LevellingUpYorkshireandtheHumberReport130720
Levelling Up Yorkshire & the Humber Report July 20
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This publication sets out the basics of detached youth work and other non-building-based forms of youth work, and locates them in the context of COVID-19.