Alcohol and young people
I heard on the news as I came into work that another survey has been published with some interesting results regarding teenagers and alcohol. The survey suggests that fewer teenagers
Poor white boys are lowest attainers
On the coach back from the school residential I heard on the radio how a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study shows that most of the persistent low achievers in England’s schools
Abstinence plus
Here is a link to a very interesting article published in the Washington Post. The gist of it is that US students attending sexual abstinence lessons are no more likely
Food and behaviour
At the last town-wide CYPSP (Children’s & Young Peoples Strategic Partnership group) this article from the Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago was mentioned. Some quotes include: At that
Changes in the model of families
Just seen some research from The Office for National Statistics, on the BBC, which shows that children in Great Britain are three times more likely to live in one-parent households
Body image
BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat and 1xtra’s TXU asked 25,000 people, mostly aged 17 to 34, how they felt about their bodies. They were some worrying trends: Women The survey found