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Advice on ... Healthy eating

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  • Monday, September 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Teenagers tend to favour foods that are high in fat and low in nutrients. Sustain's Lianna Hulbert and Jenny Samson look at the effect this has on developing bodies and suggest ways to encourage young people to eat more healthily.

Legal Update: NHS cost recovery proposals

    Features
  • Tuesday, December 6, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Patients may soon need to present identification to access NHS treatment. Gargie Ahmad, intern at Coram Children's Legal Centre, considers the impact on undocumented migrant children and families.

Youth Work Sessions: Explore sexual health with young people

    Features
  • Monday, February 3, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Talking about sex, relationships and sexual health can be a challenging experience for both facilitators and young people. These activities aim to help young people not only learn about sexual health in an interesting and fun way but also to develop the skills and confidence to make healthy choices in real life.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Special Report

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  • Tuesday, September 29, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Research has shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can increase the risk of poor life outcomes, so policymakers and practitioners are developing new ways to prevent ACEs and support children at risk of them.

Why we changed careers to work with children

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Many children’s and youth services are experiencing staffing shortages and need to recruit new blood. Tom de Castella explores why some people change career to work in the sector.

Therapeutic Communities: Special Report

There has been a recent rise in interest from policymakers and commissioners in the important role therapeutic communities play in supporting some of the most traumatised children and young people.

Health: Advice on... Volatile substance abuse

    Features
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Volatile substance abuse might not make the headlines, but the latest figures show it claimed eight lives in 2005. Re-Solv's Steve Lambert looks at the types of products young people misuse and how youth workers can spot the warning signs.

Jenny Crouch, Project co-ordinator, Addaction Derby

Breaking the Cycle is a four-year pilot in response to the Hidden Harm report on the effects of parental drug use, which showed that children of drug and alcohol users are seven or eight times more likely to develop problematic use themselves.

Health: Advice on ... Accident prevention

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 3, 2009
    • | CYP Now
Thousands of young people have to make a trip to accident and emergency every year. Cassius Francis, youth liaison officer at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, shows how youth workers can help young people avoid danger.

Interview: Baroness Beverley Hughes, Labour peer

Beverley Hughes, the former children's minister who was awarded a peerage in May, is preparing to get stuck into her new role in the House of Lords, in which she says her old brief will be her top priority.

Work Wise: Just out

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 7, 2008
    • | CYP Now
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