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| A black child born in the UK today is 12 times less likely to become prime minister than a white child, according to new research. | |
| Young People | BBC News - 13th November 2016 |
| The number of children and young people needing counselling about online bullying has increased by 88% over five years, according to a helpline. The NSPCC's Childline service said it counselled more than 4,500 children in the past year compared to about 2,400 in 2011-12. | |
| Young People | BBC News - 14th November 2016 |
| Youngsters aged 16 and 17 need last-minute financial education before adulthood amid fears they are ill-prepared, an advice service has said. A third of this age group had never put money in a bank account and two-thirds could not read a payslip, research for the Money Advice Service suggested. | |
| Young People | BBC News - 14th November 2016 |
| A widely reported survey by consultancy firm The Gild has found that young people today are the most socially conservative since the Second World War. The survey of more than 2000 people, released last month, found that 59% of the ‘Generation Z’ respondents (aged 14 and 15) said they have “conservative” views on same-sex marriage, transgender rights and cannabis legislation. The news sparked interest because 83% of millennials (born 1980-2000) and 85% of Generation X (born 1965-1980) said they were “quite” or “very liberal”. Only those respondents born before 1945 were found to be more socially conservative than the 14 and 15 year olds. | |
| Young People | Coalition for Marriage - 25th October 2016 |
| New research has found that over a third of 14 to 15 year olds in Scotland have received an explicit image on their mobile phones. | |
| Young People | The Christian Institute - 28th October 2016 |
| The Office for National Statistics has released figures that show more people aged 16 to 24 now identify as bisexual (1.8%), than those who identify as gay or lesbian combined (1.5%). It also reveals that the 16 to 24 age group has the largest percentage of those identifying in this way, 3.3%. | |
| Young People | Christian Concern - 7th October 2016 |
| More than half of all teenagers in Church of England secondary schools believe that science makes it hard to believe in God, according to a major survey published in early July. Conducted among more than 2,000 15-18-year-olds, the survey discovered that two in every five (41%) believe that the accepted scientific view is that God does not exist, while many students suppose that all scientists are atheists. The study was carried out on behalf of God and the Big Bang, a day conference that encourages GCSE and A-level students to explore the relationship between science and faith. | |
| Young People | Evangelicals Now - August 2016 |
| Around 40 primary schools in England have introduced ‘gender neutral’ uniform policies that support boys wearing skirts it was reported in June...One of the schools involved, in Birmingham, said it aimed to promote ‘each child’s right to express their gender and personality in whichever way feels right for them’. | |
| Young People | Evangelicals Now - August 2016 |
| A Christian youth worker who specialises in emotional wellbeing has called for more mental health care at grassroots level, after a report found warning signs are often being missed before it’s too late. Helen Sare, from the Christian charity Youthscape, was speaking after a University of Manchester study investigated the suicides of 130 young people between January 2014 and April 2015 and found that 50 per cent of them had self-harmed beforehand. The investigation also found a quarter of the young people aged 10-19, had said they were experiencing suicidal thoughts a week before they took their own lives. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - July 2016 |
| The ‘What about YOUth’ Survey, published in December 2015, surveyed over 120,000 British 15-year-olds about their health and wellbeing. 53% of 11-16-year-olds surveyed have seen pornography online. 28% of 11-year-olds have seen online pornography. By 15 65% had seen online pornography. 28% of children were more likely to stumble across pornography. 19% deliberately searched for it. 59% of boys chose to view online pornography, but only 25% of girls did. 44% of boys wanted to emulate pornography, but only 29% of girls. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – August 2016 |
| The ‘What about YOUth’ Survey, published in December 2015, surveyed over 120,000 British 15-year-olds about their health and wellbeing. About 25% of young people have self-harmed on one occasion. The UK has one of the highest rates of self-harm in Europe at 400 per 100,000 population. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – August 2016 |
| The ‘What about YOUth’ Survey, published in December 2015, surveyed over 120,000 British 15-year-olds about their health and wellbeing. 46% of young people say sexting is part of everyday life for teenagers nowadays. 44% of girls & 32% of boys in England have engaged with sexting. 27% of girls sent explicit images because they felt pressurised to do so. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – August 2016 |
| The ‘What about YOUth’ Survey, published in December 2015, surveyed over 120,000 British 15-year-olds about their health and wellbeing. Over half of young people (over 55 per cent) in England said that they had been bullied in some form in the past couple of months. 15 per cent had experienced cyber-bullying within the past couple of months. 26 per cent of participants had bullied another person or people at some point in the past. | |
| Young People | Youthwork – August 2016 |
| A leading children’s charity has reported a marked increase in calls from children worried about ‘sexting’, according to a new report. Nearly 1,400 calls related to sexting were received by ChildLine in 2015-16, a rise of 15 per cent on the previous year. | |
| Young People | The Christian Institute - 19th August 2016 |
| The American College of Paediatricians has issued a statement calling for an end to the normalisation of gender dysphoria, which is leading to confused children being sterilised. The College argues that with 80% of gender dysphoria cases in children resolving themselves by late adolescence, the push for medical intervention can cause permanent harm, violating “the long-standing medical ethics principle of ‘First do no harm.’” The College described this as "criminal". | |
| Young People | Christian Concern - 5th August 2016 |
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