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| Unicef is calling for more investment in young people in the UK. The call follows the organisation’s report which places the country below Slovenia, Czech Republic and Portugal, in the league table of child well-being in the world’s richest countries. Despite rising from bottom (21st) place in 2007 to 16th place in 2013, there are still areas where the UK ranks significantly low, and these tend to affect 15-19 year-olds. They include a continuing high rate of teenage pregnancy and high numbers of young people under 19 not in education, employment or training. The UK also has one of the highest alcohol abuse rates by 11 to 15 year-olds. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, July 2013 |
| Girl Guides will no longer pledge their loyalty to God and country under radical changes revealed yesterday. Youngsters joining the Guides and Brownies will instead promise to be true to myself and ‘serve my community’. The change ends more than a century of tradition and has caused an outcry from the Church of England and other religious groups….The promise has been changed 11 times in the organisation's history. Although members have been required to make a pledge to God since its inception in 1910, the phrase 'and my country' has been included only since 1994. | |
| Young People | Daily Mail June 19 2013 |
| The government has agreed to act after the High Court outlawed a Home Office policy treating 17-year-olds held in police custody as adults – denying them protections enjoyed by those aged 16 and under. Two judges declared the policy unlawful and ordered Home Secretary Theresa May, to revise it. The ruling follows the high-profile deaths of two 17-year-olds who killed themselves after getting into trouble with the police. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – April 26, 2013 |
| A ‘huge moral anxiety’ is required to respond to the problem of children accessing online pornography, the deputy children’s commissioner for England said in early April. Sue Berelowitzrevelde revealed evidence of children at the age of 11 actively ‘seeking out pornography’, and of some boys who think there are no boundaries to sex. Miss Berelowitz disclosed research that showed in one large local community area that 100% of boys in year nine classes (14-years-olds) were accessing pornography. | |
| Young People | Evangelicals Now – May 2013 |
| No further action is to be taken against Britain’s first youth police and crime commissioner who stepped down from the role over offensive comments she made on twitter, police said yesterday. Paris Brown, aged 17 was meant to be providing young people’s views on policing but found her tweets being investigated amid claims they were homophobic, racist and violent….Miss Brown, from Sheerness in Kent, who was to earn £15,000 a year from the role has since apologised for causing offence with the messages she posted between the ages of 14 and 16. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – April 22, 2013 |
| One in ten young people feels unable to cope with day-to-day life, according to a survey by The Prince’s Trust. Its fifth annual youth index, which interviewed 2,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 25, found that NEETS (not in education, employment or training) were most likely to feel unable to cope. The index gauges young people’s happiness across a range of areas, from family life to physical and mental health. The 2012 report discovered that 52 per cent of those not in education, employment or training said that they ‘often’ or ‘always’ felt depressed. Another finding from the 2012 report was that the young people living in riot-affected areas of London are less hopeful than other young people. Almost half (49 per cent) of them said they ‘never’ or only ‘sometimes’ feel hopeful – significantly higher than the 39 per cent recorded among their peers elsewhere in the country. There were some positive results from the survey too: young people are increasingly confident in many areas of life, including in work and education, family relationships and friendships. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, March 2013 |
| The Air Cadet Association has announced its intention to provide an alternative ‘non-religious’ oath for new members, it was reported in January. Girlguiding UK and the Scout Association are also considering similar changes to their respective promises, following pressure from secularist campaign groups. The former has an online survey considering the change, with a deadline of March 3. | |
| Young People | Evangelicals Now, March 2013 |
| Teenage girls are under growing pressure to look like porn stars because of online pornography, according to a disturbing warning yesterday. Pupils as young as 13 are being pushed to conform to an 'extreme' porn-star aesthetic, it was claimed. The alarming comments echo concerns raised by MPs, children's charities and the Daily Mail over the damaging effects of easily accessible web porn….The ease of access to online pornography has been blamed for a huge rise in the number of under-18s reported to the police for sex offences. In the past three years, the total topped 5,000. This month, the NSPCC revealed that some as young as five have been questioned. The charity blamed online images for warping their ideas about sex and relationships. | |
| Young People | Daily Mail 18 March 2013 |
| ‘Sexting’ is increasingly becoming a part of every-day life for teenagers as young as 13, according to a new study by Channel 4, commissioned by the NSPCC. Sexting can be defined as, ‘The use of technology to share personal sexual content’, and the study highlights how mainstream and ‘mundane’ sexting has become. The key findings from the research included: the prevalence and mundanity of sexting; that young people do not feel teachers are there to care for them in this area; that pornography viewing is common among boys of this age. The report also discovered that Amanda Todd – the Canadian teenager who committed suicide as a consequence of abuse after self-generation – has had an impact on this age group. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, February 2013 |
| The number of children and young people arrested by police has dropped by a third since 2008, research has found. Figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform show that there were 209,450 arrests of under-18s last year, compared to 315,923 in 2008 – a drop of 33.7 per cent. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, February 2013 |
| A study by Talking Taboos and Young Minds has discovered a 68 per cent increase in the number of hospital admissions from young people struggling with self-harm. The report – which covers the last ten years – suggests that there has either been a rise in the number of young people who are self-harming, or that young people are more willing to seek medical help. The same research found that almost half of GPs said that they did not really understand those who self-harm. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, January 2013 |
| Children are being given ‘unrealistic expectations’ of sex through exposure to internet pornography from as young as 11, research has revealed. The study of 1,000 young people, published by Plymouth University, warned that it was ‘common practice’ for school children to become desensitised to sexual images and that a third of people aged 16 to 24 found sex with their partners difficult as a consequence of what they had seen online. | |
| Young People | Childrenswork, December 2012/January 2013 |
| Two stories of children ages 13 being encouraged to break the law regarding the age of consent, with the support of the NHS, were reported in mid-October. Firstly, the National Health Service has launched a website across schools in two counties encouraging sexual experimentation among children as young as 13. Secondly, young girls are being given, without their parents’ knowledge, birth control injections and implants during their lunch break under five local authorities across England. | |
| Young People | Evangelicals Now, December 2012 |
| Female students are much more susceptible to binge drinking than their male counterparts, according to a new report. Young women feel the effects of alcohol quicker and live a more sedentary lifestyle than young men, the study found. Results of the research show that 56.1 per cent of female students are considered binge drinkers, as opposed to 41.3 per cent of males. Researchers studied student life¬styles monitoring their use of alcohol and illegal drugs, their diet and participation in sport. The study concluded that the majority of the student population indulged in unhealthy behaviour, particularly with regard to binge drinking and high consumption of alcohol. | |
| Young People | The Daily Telegraph Dec 31 2012 |
| Money can't buy happiness, but happiness can make you money, say scientists. Teenagers with the highest levels of emotional well-being earn an extra £6,000 on average when reaching 30 compared to their unhappiest peers. In a study of 15,000 teenagers and young adults, researchers found that the most optimistic earned 10 per cent more than the average wage by their thirties. The gloomiest youths, in contrast, were likely to take home almost a third less than average. Scientists believe happier people are more likely to get a degree and find work. They will also get promoted faster. | |
| Young People | Daily Mail November 20 2012 |
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