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| 96% of teachers have worked with children experiencing mental health issues. | |
| Young People | Youth and Children’s Work – June 2018 (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers) |
| 12% of UK youth are unemployed compared to 16.2% for the European Union as a whole. | |
| Young People | Youth and Children’s Work – June 2018 (Office for National Statistics) |
| 3/5 of young people regularly feel stressed. 1/2 of young people feel they do not know how to cope with setbacks in life. | |
| Young People | Youth and Children’s Work – June 2018 (The Prince’s Trust) |
| A recent report from University of Glasgow professor Rory O’Connor reveals one in nine young people in Scotland attempt suicide. | |
| Young People | Youth and Children’s Work – June 2018 |
| Teenage pregnancy rates have dipped to their lowest level since records began almost half a century ago, new figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that 2016 saw the lowest under-18 conception rate in England and Wales since comparable statistics were first produced in 1969. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - 28th March 2018 |
| Over two thousand children were referred to the NHS’ gender identity clinic in the past year, prompting fresh concerns that more and more young people are being pushed into transsexualism...The figures are a 25 per cent increase from the previous year, with girls outnumbering boys by more than two to one. | |
| Young People | The Christian Institute - 23rd May 2018 |
| At the age of 11, children from the poorest 20 per cent of households are four times more likely to have a serious mental-health difficulty than those in the wealthiest 20 per cent. | |
| Young People | Church Times – 18th May 2018 |
| A “profound” lack of curiosity about religion, faith or God was evident in interviews with teenagers explored in a report from the charity Youthscape, published this week. Researchers detected, in addition to “spiritual apathy,” a fear that questions might cause offence, a reiteration of the sentiment that “we are all the same,” and a “passive engagement” with God, in which young people believed that “God has to come to me”. | |
| Young People | Church Times - 2nd March 2018 |
| A new study asking children in care about their experiences found that half those under the age of seven did not know why they were in care. The study, by the charity Coram Voice and the University of Bristol, is the largest of its kind, surveying 2263 children and young people across different regions. On the whole, the survey found that most children and young people felt that being in care had improved their lives. But younger children’s experience was less positive. | |
| Young People | Church Times - 23rd February 2018 |
| The Gambling Commission suggests that up to half of children are gambling on computer games without their parents’ knowledge. This is done through seemingly harmless games that contain ‘loot boxes’, where they are encouraged to bet on the contents of the box. | |
| Young People | Premier Youth and Children’s Work – February 2018 |
| 180,000 children in the UK are in the care of relatives. 47% of carers say they are not getting the financial support they need. 52% of children in kinship care have experienced abuse or neglect. 5% of carers are entitled to statutory support. Grandparents Plus report on kinship care. | |
| Young People | Premier Youth and Children’s Work – February 2018 |
| Young people would rather use social media or talk online to people they do not know than have a conversation face to face, research has suggested. Those aged 18 to 24 are around 20 times more likely to never speak to their neighbours, than those aged 55 and over, a survey carried out on behalf of Cancer Research UK found. Experts said the research showed an increasing generational divide between how millennials and baby boomers prefer to communicate. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – 29 January 2018 |
| Sweeping changes to social-economic conditions and living circumstances are the main factors behind a marked drop in car ownership among young people, a study suggests. Academics found the rise in lower-paid and less secure jobs, a decline in home ownership and increased higher education participation influenced the transport decisions of people aged between 17 and 29 since 1990. The high cost of driving and online communication were other factors. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel – 25 January 2018 |
| Anxiety in numbers: 1 in 10 teenagers in the U.K. have a diagnosable mental health disorder. Half of problems with mental health start before age 14. 45% of young people feel anxious about their body image. 37% worry about school work. 78% of teenagers say there is stigma to mental ill health. 24% wouldn’t ask for help. | |
| Young People | The King’s Arms Youth Project (Premier Youth and Children’s Work – March 2018) |
| A report has tracked what children want to be when they are older. Sports player was the most popular career choice, while vlogger scored higher than TV star for the first time. | |
| Young People | Premier Youth and Children’s Work – March 2018 |
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