Many of those attending urged the Government to adopt a more developmental approach to funding so that lessons can be learned from the most successful health-based projects. The event, entitled Living Dangerously, also identified a need for more joined-up thinking and partnership work at local level, and to spread influence across a wide field and not just among policymakers.
There was also concern that the media and commercial world sent out the wrong message on health to young people.
Delegates widely felt that support for young people should be provided by integrated services, with a young person at the centre of many concentric rings of linked support but that this is some way from being realised.
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