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Positive activities: qualitative research with young people
- Author:
- SOLUTIONS RESEARCH
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report gives the background and objectives, method and sample, research objectives and a management summary of research to investigate the participation of young people in 'positive activities'. 'Positive activites' include sports, creative activities such as dance, drama and music, volunteering, engagement in the local community and membership of clubs. Sections covered in the report include attitudes to positive activities, typologies and influences and barriers, a summary of trigger points, benefits and motivators to participation in activities, responses to mood boards and themes, channels and follow-up research, ending with conclusions and key pointers on promoting participation.
Targeted youth support: next steps
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The targeted youth support reforms bring together local services and create a common approach to identifying vulnerable young people, early assessing needs and providing integrated support. This report covers celebrating success, ensuring reforms take root, strengthening local leadership, enabling everyone to play their part, achieving excellent delivery, focusing on impact and moving forward.
Police work with young people
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Corin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.10.07, 2007, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author looks at three innovative projects that are forging better links between young people and the police. They include a placement scheme for police students at Stonham supported housing so that police students are able to understand the difficulties vulnerable young people face; a similar scheme is also operating at Rainer's West Sussex Supported Accommodation Service; whereas in Tower Hamlets young people get the chance of experiencing life from the police's perspective.
Tory idea put to the test
- Author:
- de CASTELLA Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Young People Now, 28.02.07, 2007, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket Professional Publications Ltd
The Conservative Party-backed youth initiative the Young Adult Trust held its first residential scheme last week. The initiative aims to tackle young people's alienation and give them a greater sense of purpose. The author reports on the activities undertaken.
Age concern
- Author:
- FILDLER Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 31.01.07, 2007, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
The author reports on how the Dutch tackle sex and relationship education, at what age they begin to teach it, and how it is influencing practice in England.
Young people and the Internet: from theory to practice
- Author:
- LEE Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Young Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 13(4), November 2005, pp.315-326.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The article explores critical factors involved in the interaction of society and technology, by considering processes and outcomes of Internet use and practices by teenagers. Drawing on empirical work in four Brighton (UK) schools with distinctive social, cultural and economic characteristics, a model of analysis is developed in which key structural and personal situations reveal the complexity in the co-construction of users and technology. On a base level, an important aspect of this complexity emerges from young people’s changing social and institutional contexts of use (such as the home and the school), social biographies and life trajectories. On another level, reflections are made on the temporal nature of such patterns or discussions, because of wider technological, cultural and social changes and developments. Significantly therefore, much emphasis is placed on the limitations of particular units of analysis in the study of young people and technologies, as these are seen as far too reductive and too deterministic, calling for methodological approaches that allow greater flexibility in the research of fluid and complex phenomena.
Drugs futures: changing patterns of drug use amongst English youth
- Authors:
- PARKER Howard, MEASHAM Fiona, ALDRIDGE Judith
- Publisher:
- Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 30p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides accessible research findings about young people's changing patterns of drug use, using a study of young people in the North-West of England as a base.
Adult carer transition in practice under the Care Act 2014
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
The resource explores how the provisions in the Care Act around transition can be put into practice for adult carers as the young person they care for moves into adulthood. This can be a difficult time for adult carers, because the young person they care for will often be leaving full-time education and require very different care and support as an adult building an independent life. Adult carers have in the past had to give up full-time work in order to provide more support. The Care Act places a duty on local authorities to assess adult carers before the child they care for turns 18, so that they have the information they need to plan for their future. This is referred to as a transition assessment. This resource brings together useful publications, practice examples and a process map with suggestions on how to put the stages into action. (Edited publisher abstract)
Guidance for safeguarding partners (England): deaf children, young people and their families
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORKERS WITH DEAF CHILDREN AND PROFESSIONALS GROUP
- Publisher:
- National Deaf Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 33
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance and accompanying tool are designed to support safeguarding partners and their partnership boards in England to consider the safeguarding needs of deaf children, young people and their families in the services they provide. The accompanying tool includes: a summary table of key legal duties on individual safeguarding partners with relevance to deaf children, young people and their families; key outcomes demonstrating deaf children and young people are being supported in the area of your responsibility; suggested actions to meet the key outcomes; links to examples of best practice guidance and documents of specific relevance to deaf children, young people and their families. A self-audit tool is also included in order for partners to consider current provision, identify areas to develop, and track progression. (Edited publisher abstract)
Unequal conditions of care and the implications for social policies on young carers
- Author:
- ALEXANDER Chloe
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 38(5), 2021, pp.505-518.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Young carers are the subject of public policies in the UK, which aim to address their needs as a group experiencing disadvantage relating to their caring role. These policies are implemented in a way that aims to improve their health and their educational and social opportunities, but left unaddressed is a wider context of inequalities. Nevertheless, inequalities are a feature of the terrain upon which social policies for young carers are developed and implemented. Evaluation of the ways that young carers and their families are impacted by public policies demands an understanding of those inequalities. Academic knowledge of how experiences diverge as a result of multiple intersecting inequalities is so far limited. This paper reports from a study that aimed to contribute greater understanding of the interaction between inequalities, young carers, family life and social policies in England. Ethnographic research methods created a record of care, family life and the impact of social policies. Unequal conditions of care are an important feature of the lives of young people and their families with on-going caring responsibilities. Young carers and their families positioned at the intersection of inequalities of ‘race’/ethnicity, class and disability had different and unequal experiences of support. The paper discusses these findings and explores the implications for social policies and social work practice. (Edited publisher abstract)