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The Department for Education has published its third annual State of the Nation report, providing an in-depth picture of the experiences of children and young people aged 5 to 24 throughout the pandemic during the 2020 to 2021 academic year.
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Vast majority of under 25s took up positive pandemic mental health habits
New research from YoungMinds shows that the vast majority of under 25s did something to improve or maintain their mental health last year, despite the uncertainty and disruption of the pandemic
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Trauma-informed care is widely used and perceived to add value to children’s social care.
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UK Poverty 2022: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has published a new-style comprehensive report on poverty in the UK, calling for coordinated commitment, effort and action on the intersecting issues and challenges its report identifies
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Youth Evidence Review: Part 1 & 2
Prior to the pandemic, DCMS commissioned an independent provider to undertake a Youth Evidence Review in order to understand the opportunities and challenges facing young people. The review consists of two pieces of research to inform government thinking on youth policy; a rapid evidence assessment which summarises evidence on the extent to which young people are experiencing positive mental and physical wellbeing, and qualitative research exploring how young people engage with their local area
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oung people’s employment in 2021: improvements and challenges in the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Covid 19 - and the Disadvantage Gaps in England 2020
The Education Policy Institute has published analysis of progress to address educational inequalities both in the recent pandemic-impacted years and over the past ten years. In terms of 'measured grade gaps', that is disparities in centrally-assessed grades such as GCSEs and A Levels, rather than in students' underlying abilities
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Special edition: Care Leavers and the Criminal Justice System
Black and ethnic minority children in care are being “accelerated” through the criminal justice system due to a dual threat of “care system failings” and racism by police and the courts, an academic report has warned
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Unapologetically Me –‘Transcending Resilience’
A report exploring the role of resilience in supporting the well-being of young people with racialised identities, from minoritised communities.
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Girlguiding UK Young People Polling – Report 2022
More Than One in Five Girls Experience ‘Cyberflashing’ suggests almost 8 in 10 girls and young women have experienced online harm
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YMCA Devalued- a decade of cuts to youth services 2022
Research by YMCA, reveals that not only have funding cuts now reached £1.1bn (a real-terms fall of 74% since 2010/11) but annual spend per head on 5-to-17-year-olds in England has plummeted from £158 in 2010/11 to just £37 in 2020/21. Looking at local authority spending per head across the two countries, YMCA discovered a postcode lottery of funding variations, the difference even between some neighbouring local authorities was stark, with spend per 5-to-17-year-old in Wandsworth in 2020/21 reaching £108.25, while in neighbouring Merton the figure was just £29.77
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NCS and Democratic Engagement summary Report
The Behavioural Insights Team has published analysis of the impact of service learning through programmes like the National Citizen Service on young people's participation in political activity such as protesting or signing a petition.
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The NSPCC has published a briefing on what parents and carers have told their helpline about the impact of domestic abuse on their children's safety, behaviour, and mental health. It quotes extensively from concerned parents and step-parents.
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Youth Evidence Review part 1 - 2
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has published two parts of a review it commissioned from NatCen before the pandemic looking at young people's lives to inform government thinking on youth policy. They include a deep dive involving eight focus groups of young people and a rapid evidence assessment. The deep dive details what young people felt was missing from youth provision, including: • Mental health support • Career and future planning support • Reporting racism • Spaces to hang out • Spaces to study outside home • Activities to prevent anti-social behaviour • Inclusive spaces accessible to a diversity of young people
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Nominet Digital Youth Index Report Nominet has published the Digital Youth Index, looking into young people's access to and experience of digital spaces. Based on a survey and qualitative research of 8 - 25 year olds and the parents and professionals around them,
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Youth employment in the UK 2021
explores how young people understand and are prepared for the world of work. 66% of graduates feel the educational qualifications they hold were necessary to get their current job, but just 41% said they were necessary to do their job effectively, according to the report. In response to the report’s findings, the CIPD is calling for increased government funding for careers advice, for schools and colleges to give equal focus to vocational and academic routes and employers to collaborate with local schools and colleges
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Children in the North are more likely to live in poverty than those in the rest of England – and increasingly so. Poverty is the lead driver of inequalities between children in the North and their counterparts in the rest of the country, leading to worse physical and mental health outcomes, educational attainment, and lower lifelong economic productivity
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Youth Conversations - how to increase access to international experiences at home and abroad
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Children in crisis: the role of public services in overcoming child vulnerability
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Pandemic has caused "crisis of confidence" among young people about their skills for work
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London Voices: the journey to full participation
The report argues that civic and democratic participation in London and the United Kingdom more broadly need to be addressed urgently
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Highlights • Retrospective study shows positive youth development for out-of-school time program. • Higher levels of social-emotional learning (SEL) when living in urban area. • Vocational high school students show more positive results than other school types. • Follow-up programs enhance experience of development of social-emotional learning.
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Youth Evidence - Deep Dive Focus Group Findings
The findings from the focus groups were analysed to answer five questions: • How do young people spend their time outside of school? • What is missing from local provision in their area? • What are the barriers young people face in accessing activities / services or engaging in the way in which they would like? • What benefits do they feel it would bring if they could access the things they would like to do? • Do they feel empowered to make the changes they wish to see in their local area/beyond?
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Youth Review - Rapid Evidence Assessment findings
The Government is committed to investing in young people’s futures and to helping all young people to fulfil their potential. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has commissioned a Youth Evidence Review to understand the challenges and opportunities facing young people today and in the future, and to inform Government thinking on youth policy. This report presents findings from the first stage of the Review – a rapid evidence assessment. It summarises current evidence on the extent to which young people are: • experiencing positive wellbeing • safe and treated fairly and equally • mentally and physically healthy • learning and prepared for work • active members of society
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Information for youth workers to support CPD
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Compare Council Performance
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It Takes a Village - The case for family support in every community
This report draws on Barnardo’s experience in communities across the country to highlight what we think effective family support looks like.
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The National Youth Agency and YMCA have published a report describing 'the death of youth services by a thousand cuts' - 73% since 2010.
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The number of children unhappy with their lives has dramatically increased over the last decade, concerning new research warns.
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Young people in rural areas overlooked, left to fall between the cracks
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Mind Matters Lessons From Past Crises for Children and Adolescents Mental Health
COVID-19 is a crisis like no other in modern times. It has reached every population and community. While the evidence base is still nascent, this report looks at the impacts of disasters and past epidemics – such as Ebola, HIV, SARS/MERS and Zika – on child and adolescent mental health and psychosocial wellbeing, and examines how these insights can guide policies and progammes to support children, their families and communities during the current pandemic.
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The Community Life Survey is a nationally representative annual survey of adults (16+) in England that aims to track the latest trends and developments across areas that are key to encouraging social action and empowering communities.
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Review of Youth Work in England: Interim report
The APPG on Youth Affairs has been holding a short review of the progress across statutory and voluntary youth services, following on from an extensive inquiry into youth work and recommendations in 2019.
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Youth Social Action Rapid Evidence Assessment
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), one of the main funders of social action programmes in the UK, commissioned Alma Economics to carry out a Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) to collect evidence on the causes of youth social action participation and the impact of social action on outcomes for young people
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Adversity, Trauma and Resilience Knowledge Exchange Post event update April 2021
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International Opportunities Beyond Erasmus +
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A care experienced former social worker describes a 'Sliding Doors' effect that separates children in care from their peers and leaves them unsupported in adulthood
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A Connected Recovery: Findings of the APPG on Loneliness Inquiry
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Deaf Advance: Deaf people, employment and career progression April 2021
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Joint Briefing on the Benefit Cap and Domestic Abuse
This briefing sets out the concerns of Shelter and Women’s Aid Federation of England on the impact of the benefit cap on survivors of domestic abuse.
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Evaluation of the yOUTh service 2021
This third annual report documents findings from recent research activities, i.e., the third round of consultation with young people
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Lockdown one year on: how young women are paying the price for the pandemic
This report draws on a survey, Young Women’s Trust asked young women about their experiences since the pandemic hit. The findings make for troubling reading, providing yet more evidence of how young women feel let down by government
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Every village, every hour 2021 buses report: full report
The aim of this report is to show how we can have a bus system that is fit for the climate emergency and that will put an end to the inequality and social exclusion
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report produced in partnership with Youth Employment UK, looks at young people's unemployment. Young people who face the biggest barriers to work risk falling between the cracks, without a job or training and with little support.
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Ground-breaking report: Evidence shows too many young people in the criminal justice system suffer from violence, poverty, and abuse growing up - West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner (westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk)
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Young people are being groomed locally – ‘on their door steps’ – as drug gangs and dealers adapt the way they work to exploit young people across county lines
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UNCRC General Comment on children's rights in relation to the digital environment
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child codifies children’s rights and is the basis upon which much domestic legislation in relation to children rests around the world. The Committee on the Rights of the Child have now updated the Convention outlining how children should be treated in the digital world, thanks to the work of 5Rights Foundation
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The State of Education: Poverty, the Pandemic and Recovery
The National Education Union's (NEU) State of Education survey gathered views from 10,000+ school and college staff to give a clear signal on how best to steer a course for education out of Covid on how schools can continue supporting disadvantaged pupils
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Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: The Report March 21
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UNSEEN MODERN SLAVERY & EXPLOITATION HELPLINE ANNUAL ASSESSMENT 2020
At least one in five victims of criminal exploitation by drugs gangs in the UK are children, analysis of calls to a modern slavery and exploitation helpline shows
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Changing the perfect picture: an inquiry into body image
As the country prepares for the reopening of gyms and beauty salons, a new report into body image has branded the Government's approach to eating disorders and tackling poor body image, and a key health indicator, potentially harmful
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Together, we can stop child sexual abuse. If you’re worried something isn’t right, you’ve come to the right place. You’re not alone – there’s always someone who will listen to you and take what you say seriously. This page will help you find support – whether it’s for you, or someone you know.
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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.