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| The NSPCC has reported a huge jump in the number of people being bullied online. It has gone up 88 per cent in four years, with more than 4,500 children calling NSPCC’s Childline in 2015/16 compared to more than 2,400 in 2011/12. Nearly one-third of those contacting NSPCC said they’d experienced bullying on a gaming or social networking site. The extent of bullying via social media profile pages ranged from insults about looks, to death threats. | |
| Young People | Premier YCW - January 2017 |
| Over the past decade the number of under 18 girls who needed treatment after cutting themselves rose by 285 per cent with boys rising by 186 per cent over the same period. There were also increases in the number trying to poison themselves. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - December 2016 |
| ChildLine reports that they’ve seen a rise of 35 per cent in counselling sessions with young people about anxiety, with 6,500 counselling sessions on anxiety being given in the last six months. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - December 2016 |
| Research from Barnardo’s has revealed: 88% of 11-18-year-olds lack confidence. 65% say grown-ups are ‘not very good’ at telling them they can succeed. 50% of parents agree there’s more pressure on young people today than when they were young. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - November 2016 |
| New research unveiled this month made for rather depressing reading. It spoke of the continued desire of young people to attend university creating a ‘generation regret’. More than a third of so-called millennials (those aged 18-35) who went to university, says the report by insurance giant Aviva, regret doing so as they struggle with debts and squeezed finances. Some 49 percent, meanwhile, believe they could have got to where they are now without it. | |
| Young People | The Sentinel - 19th August 2016 |
| A terminally ill teenager became, in September, the first minor to be killed by euthanasia, after age restrictions on euthanasia in Belgium were abolished in 2014. | |
| Young People | Evangelical Now - November 2016 |
| An autumn survey has revealed that nearly one in four millennials are religiously unaffiliated, and many of them say they left the church due to teachings on homosexuality. | |
| Young People | Evangelical Now - November 2016 |
| An NHS doctor has issued a warning to young people about the dangers of watching pornography. Psychosexual therapist Angela Gregory says more and more men in their late teens and early 20s are suffering from erectile dysfunction as a result of becoming addicted to watching online pornography. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - October 2016 |
| Almost one-third of young people are considered to be in debt, according to National Debtline and the Money Advise Trust. The average debt among 18-24 year olds has reached nearly £3,000. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - October 2016 |
| NSPCC’s helpline ChildLine says it is carrying out an average 53 counselling sessions every day from children and young people with suicidal thoughts. Over the past year, 19,481 calls were made by those considering ending their own lives – double the number from five years ago. The charity says the major triggers for these calls are a turbulent home life, abuse, school pressures and mental health conditions. | |
| Young People | Youthwork - October 2016 |
| More than 500 children under the age of 13 have been investigated by police over sexually explicit images, new figures have revealed....The newly-released sexting statistics came from 26 police forces which said they had probed 2,287 incidents of possessing, making or distributing indecent images by children between April 2015 and 2016. | |
| Young People | The Christian Institute - 16th December 2016 |
| A record number of children have called child helplines about their 'gender confusion', it has emerged. Childline held 185 discussions with young people in Scotland about 'gender confusion' between 2015-2016, and the NSPCC held 2,796 UK counselling sessions with children experiencing confusion. | |
| Young People | Christian Concern - 16th December 2016 |
| The proportion of women having at least one child by the age of 20 has fallen to its lowest level in decades, the Office for National Statistics says. Its report, which looked at women in England and Wales, showed roughly one in 14 women born in 1995 (7%) had at least one child before they were 20...The proportion of 7% is in comparison to a peak of one in five (20%) for women born in 1952. | |
| Young People | BBC News - 18th November 2016 |
| Cases involving children under ten years old sharing explicit images of themselves online are being reported to Scotland Yard “virtually every day”. | |
| Young People | The Christian Institute - 14th October 2016 |
| Very stressful events affect the brains of girls and boys in different ways, a Stanford University study suggests. A part of the brain linked to emotions and empathy, called the insula, was found to be particularly small in girls who had suffered trauma. But in traumatised boys, the insula was larger than usual. | |
| Young People | BBC News - 12th November 2016 |
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