The aim of these guidelines, from the National Youth Agency, is to provide a tool to enable individual workers, youth service managers in the public and voluntary sectors, commissioning bodies and partners to assess the quality and effectiveness of this work.
The guidelines split the key areas of health that affect young people into four strands — healthy lifestyle, mental and emotional wellbeing, healthy relationships and sex, and substance use. The first of these looks at having a healthy diet, obesity and size zero issues, reasonable physical fitness and participation in physical activity, everyday risk management and positive relationships.
Mental and emotional wellbeing includes concerns over self-image, dealing with bullying or bereavement and initial support to those with eating disorders or who self-harm. Healthy relationships and sex covers sexual development, gender identity work, sexually transmitted infections and support on contraception, pregnancy, abortion and parenting, while substance use includes the use of prescribed drugs, tobacco and alcohol, as well as illegal drugs.
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