The demand for "the facts" is pushing into more areas of work, including youth services and Connexions, the plans for which contain daunting columns of statistics marching towards the goal of evidence-based targeting of resources and evidence-based practice.
The Trust for the Study of Adolescence has been collating data since 1999. Like its predecessors, this volume provides charts on six main areas: population and demography; education, training and employment; physical health; sexual health; mental health; and crime.
This edition gives comparisons for things such as qualifications as well as for regular smoking, drinking and drug taking. There is some, perhaps surprising, good news here, with 15-year-olds in the UK outperforming their contemporaries in France and Germany on reading, mathematics and scientific literacy.
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