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| The number of young smokers in England is at its lowest level since records began in 1982. Back then more than half (53%) of 11-15 year-olds has tried smoking at least once. Today that figure stands at just 29%. The percentage of young people regularly smoking has also fallen – from a peak of 13% in 1996 to a low of 6% in 2007, where it has remained since. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, October 2010 |
| Members of Girl Guiding UK, the UK’s largest organisation for girls and young women, have launched a petition calling for compulsory labelling to distinguish between airbrushed and natural images. | |
| Young People | Families First, September/October 2010 |
| Social networking sites have more influence on girls than television or magazines, a recent survey has revealed. Sites like Facebook were identified as one of the most important things in the lives of 40% of girls questioned, compared to just 6% of boys. This implies that social networking sites are central to the social and family life of girls. National Family Week commissioned the study, the results of which were based on 3,000 parents and 1,000 children aged eight to 15. Girls named the top three most important things in their lives as friends, family and Facebook, whereas 73% of boys identified family first and listed money above Facebook. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – July 2010 |
| New research by experience website www.intotheblue.co.uk has found that 54% of 16-year-olds only want to be famous when they are older, rather than opting for a more traditional career. Just 9% said they wanted to work in the legal profession; 13% sought a job in the media and 15% said they would like a career in medicine. Of the 54% who wanted to be a celebrity in the future, only 19% felt they had enough talent to make them worthy of fame. The stars that most respondents aspired to be like were: 1. Kate Moss 2. Wayne Rooney 3. Lady Gaga 4. Nicola T 5. Richard Branson | |
| Young People | Inspire, June 2010 |
| Two thirds of children aged between 12 and 15 say that violent video games affect their behaviour. This staggering discovery was made by Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, when it interviewed 2,000 parents and children. In the survey, reported in The Daily Telegraph, the children said they believed playing violent computer games such as Grand Theft Auto led to aggressive behaviour. | |
| Young People | The War Cry, 29 May 2010 |
| Young drivers could be safer behind the wheel if parents sit in on their lessons, according to a £500,000 study. Staffordshire County Council and Keele University looked at how parents can help their children as they learn to drive. The study targeted 17 to 24-year-old drivers. Figures show more than 3,000 motorists aged under 25 are killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads each year. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel, Thursday April 29, 2010 |
| Almost a tenth of children have a part-time job to earn extra money. Their average weekly wage is £17.93, totalling almost £1,000 a year. | |
| Young People | The War Cry, 17 April 2010 |
| Children as young as five, whose parents abuse drugs and alcohol, are being targeted in a new project to stop them becoming addicts. It is estimated more than 1,300 children aged under 16 live with a drug-using parent in Stoke-on-Trent. As part of a £500,000 project, a new “hidden harm” youth worker will be one of six new members of Stoke-on-Trent’s young people’s drug project. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel, Tuesday March 2, 2010 |
| The majority of young people only want to be famous, rather than embarking on a traditional career, according to a recent survey. In a study of over 1,000 16-year-olds, 54% responded to the question ‘what would you like to be when you’re older’ with the answer ‘famous’. 15% said they would like a career in medicine, 13% a job in the media, and 9% were aiming for a legal career. However, despite the dominance of the fame dream, 68% of the starry-eyed respondents claimed they didn’t know how to become a celebrity, and 21% said they would try to become famous through a reality TV show such as Britain’s Got Talent. Of those who hoped for a life in the public eye, only 19% felt they were talented enough to deserve fame. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, April 2010 |
| A team of researchers put around 100 questions to just under 6,744 children in years 6, 8 and 10. A large majority placed themselves above the mid-point on the happiness measure. But seven per cent were significantly unhappy which equates to 140,000 of the 1.8 million children in these three year groups. Children are least happy with their appearance and confidence (17.5 per cent and 16 per cent, respectively). Following those, children were most unhappy with were their local areas (14 per cent) and school work (12 per cent). | |
| Young People | The Church of England Newspaper – January 29th 2010 |
| Research from the NSPCC and the University of Bristol has found that one in three teenage girls suffer from some form of sexual abuse in their relationships with boyfriends, while a quarter suffer physical violence such as being slapped, punched of beaten. One in six have felt pressured to have intercourse, while one in 16 have been raped. Around 90 per cent of 13 – to 17-year-olds of both sexes have been in intimate relationships, and girls who are in relationships with older boyfriends are more at risk of abuse, with three-quarters of them reporting that they have been victims. It’s not just girls who are being abused. Some boys report having been pressurised into sexual activity – around one in 17 – and around 20 per cent have suffered physical violence from their girlfriends. However, it would seem that girls are more likely to keep quiet about the abuse they suffer, feeling that it’s somehow normal or through fears that they would lose their boyfriends, whereas boys were more likely to reciprocate or end the relationship if they suffered from abuse from their girlfriends. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – January 2010 |
| The latest installment in the vampire movie series Twilight is a ‘deviant moral vacuum’, according to the Vatican. The movie has already broken box office records as the highest single-day earner after pulling in $62.2 million on its opening day of release. Monsignor Franco Perazzelo, of the pontifical council of culture, said that New Moon ‘ combines a mixture of excesses that, as ever, is aimed at young people and gives a heavy esoteric element…This film is nothing more than a moral vacuum with a deviant message and as such, is something, that should be of concern,’ he said. In October the Vatican warned parents that Halloween had an ‘undercurrent of occultism’ and was ‘absolutely anti-Christian’. The Vatican advised parents instead to ‘direct the meaning of the feast towards wholesomeness and beauty rather than terror, fear and death’. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – January 2010 |
| Shocking new figures have revealed that one in 20 teenagers having abortions are doing so for at least the second time. The figures have been described as a “massive human tragedy” by pro-life charity LIFE. In the figures, which have been released to MPs by the department of Health, more than 5,000 repeat abortions on teenage girls were recorded in 2008. | |
| Young People | The Universe – 13th December 2009 |
| The age of consent should be lowered to 14 in order “to protect young people”, according to controversial human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Tatchell, one of the founders of radical gay rights group Outrage!, suggests the review of the consent laws should be premised on five aims. First, ending the criminalisation of consenting relationships; protecting young people against sex abuse; empowering them to make responsible sexual and emotional choices and removing the legal obstacles to earlier, more effective sex and relationship education. Finally, he suggests this will ensure better contraception and condom provision to prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortions and to cut the spread of infections like HIV. However, Conservative MP David Davies said: “it is vital that the law protects vulnerable young people from exploitation by adults. There are already far to many young people having underage sex and we have a terrible record for teenage pregnancies.” European countries including Austria, Bulgaria and Croatia set the age of consent at 14. It is 13 in Spain. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – December 2009 |
| One in three young people in the UK describe feeling some emotional distress most of the time according to the NSPCC poll. 32 per cent of 11-16 year-olds surveyed said they felt sad, depressed, lonely, worried, stressed as they progress through their teens. NSPCC Chief Executive Andrew Flanagan said: “While many children are generally happy, others are deeply troubled and desperate for help…Teenager years can be notoriously stressful for young people and… the scale of childhood distress in this poll is revealing.” The survey was conducted to coincide with the launch of an online version of ChildLine’s phone line service. www.childline.org.uk offers young people a place to talk about their problems with a counsellor. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – December 2009 |
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