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| Young people are spending increasing amounts of their lives in front of televisions, games consoles and computers, amounting to as much as six hours a day. A third of young people insist they cannot live without their computer and this on-line activity is creating a barrier between parents and their children, a study of 5-to-16 year-olds by research agency, Childwise found. …As a result of this, reading is becoming a far less popular pastime – 84% said they read for pleasure in 2006 compared to 74% in 2009. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - March 2009 |
| Young people taking part in an enquiry into youth disaffection have asked for first aid training to ensure they know how to cope if they come across someone who has been stabbed or shot. Young people taking part in an investigation by the Nuffield 14-19 Review and the youth charity Rathbone saw the risk of being a victim of crime as an ‘inherent part of their lives’. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – December |
| The Youth Citizenship Commision (YCC) is researching whether the voting age should be lowered to 16 to encourage young people to be more involved in the political process. A consultation paper has been sent to a wide range of organisations interested in youth and voting issues across the UK. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – January |
| The vertebra of an Ice Age rhinoceros has been unearthed at a water park by a five year old girl on a day out. Emelia Fawbert found the fossilised remains at the Cotswold Water Park near Cirencester, goucestershire, during an organised fossil hunt. Emelia and her father James, 33, from Bussage, near Stroud, dug up the vertebra of the wolly rhino which roamed the area about 50,000 years ago. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - November 5th |
| Generational, A lack of parents and adult role models is driving young people to turn to gangs and other peers for support, according to a report published by The Prince’s Trust. The Culture of Youth Communities reveals that a third (34%) of young people do not have a parent who they consider to be a role model. Fifty-eight per cent of young people claim that finding a sense of identity is a key reason for joining a gang, and almost a quarter (22%) say young people are looking for role models in gangs. More than half (55%) already cite friends and peers as role models. | |
| Young People | Keep The Faith - 2008 |
| Young people turn to gangs and their peers for support when they have a lack of adult role models in their life according to a report by the Prince’s Trust. Although only 9% of young people have belonged to a gang, more than half of young people sympathise with those who do because they recognise that they are looking for a sense of identity. Martina Milburn, Chief Executive of The Prince’s Trust, commented: ‘All the threads that hold a community together- a common identity, role models, a sense of safety-were given by young people as motivations to join gangs.’ One third of the 14-25 year olds surveyed said they did not have a parent they considered to be a role model. Milburn reflected: ‘Our research suggests that young people are creating their own ‘youth communities’ and gangs in search of the influences that could once have been found in traditional communities.’ | |
| Young People | Youthwork October 2008 |
| A leading entrepreneur added his voice today to calls for children not to be put in a “cotton wool culture” which discourages measured risk-taking. Simon Woodroffe, founder of YO! said: “experiencing risk is not only key to their general development but also to bringing on the next generation of entrepreneurs.” A leading entrepreneur added his voice today to calls for children not to be put in a “cotton wool culture” which discourages measured risk-taking. Simon Woodroffe, founder of YO! said: “experiencing risk is not only key to their general development but also to bringing on the next generation of entrepreneurs. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - July 10th 2008 |
| Adults are worried about the values children are learning from people around them, according to research conducted for the Children’s Society. Two thirds of adults who responded to the poll – carried out for the Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Inquiry – thought that the moral values of children today are not as strong as when they were growing up. | |
| Young People | The War Cry - July 5th 2008 |
| Evidence from three national cohort studies point to a clear rise in emotional problems amongst 16 to 17-year-olds between 1986 and 1999. Girls in particular showed increasing signs of physchological distress, low self-esteem, and worries about their performance at school, as well as a rise in self-harming behaviour. The data also suggest a doubling of conduct problems between 1974 and 1999, especially for boys and for non-aggressive behaviours such as lying, stealing and disobedience. The suicide rate amongst 15 – 19 year-old boys increased by 45 per cent over the same period. | |
| Young People | The Church Of England April 25th 2008 |
| More women including an alarming number of teenage girls, are having repeated abortions, the Government has admitted. Among under-18s nearly 1400 abortions were performed on girls who had already had one or two abortions. 18,619 pregnancies were terminated in total among under-18s in 2006. Of the 200,00 abortions that took place in 2006, 32% were performed on women who had already had at least one other pregnancy terminated, raising fears that some women use abortion as a form of contreception. | |
| Young People | Evangelical Times May 2008 |
| Young People are binge-drinking at an increasingly early age, with serious consequences for health and crime, according to research released today. A poll of youngsters found 42% started drinking before they were thirteen with 29% saying they drink to get drunk. The national poll questioned 1,250 10-19yr olds | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - January 23, 2008 |
| The Children’s Commissioner for England is set to call for a ban on a device which disperses young people by emitting a high-pitched sound which only they can hear. The gadget known as the mosquito, exploits the fact that people’s ability to hear very high frequencies declines in their 20’s. Professor Sir Albert Aynsley-Green will lead a new campaign called Buzz Off which will call for a ban on the mosquito on the grounds that it infringes the rights of young people, the BBC reported today. “these devices are indiscriminate and target all children and young people, including babies, regardless of whether they are behaving or misbehaving” he said. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - 12th February 2008 |
| Schoolgirls in Dorset can now get the morning-after pill from their local chemist without needing to say a word. Instead they just hand over a special ‘contraception credit card’ with their details filled in on the back. The card is supposed to help girls overcome the daunting prospect of asking for emergency contraception, but inevitably is will help foster reckless attitudes to inappropriate sexual activity. | |
| Young People | Evangelical Times February 2008 |
| Low-income families are to get £18 million of government cash to spend on home safety measures to help stop young children being injured. The three-year project was announced today by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls who said it would protect vulnerable youngsters. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – December 3rd 2007 |
| Efforts to cut the number of teenage pregnancies are to be stepped up after an official assessment found the Government was set to miss a target to halve the rate by 2010. The Department of Health’s annual report concluded that “progress needs to be accelerate” to cut the rate of conceiving under-18’s. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - December 31st 2007 |
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