Research

Please use the links below to open the relevant research report. All of these reports open in new windows.

• A Survey of Teenagers’ Views of Sex and Relationships Education and Sexual Health Services in Kent
  This survey was carried out by the Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) as part of a broader programme of study into teenagers’ views and experiences of sex and relationship education, sexual health services and family support services in Kent.
• Making the links between Alcohol and Sexual Health
  The Sexual Health Policy Team in collaboration with the Alcohol Policy Team want to strengthen the links between sexual health and alcohol at a national and local level. A workshop held on 5 May 2009 provided the opportunity to outline the key policy drivers and current research in the two overlapping areas.  Read the results from this day.
• Looked-After Children’s Views of Sex and Relationships Education and Sexual Health Services
  This document reports on the findings from a project exploring teenage looked-after children’s views of sex and relationships education and sexual health services.
• Promoting the emotional health of children and young people
  Guidance for Children’s Trust partnerships, including how to deliver NI 50
• Self-Efficacy: Addressing Behavioural Attitudes Towards Risky Behaviour -
  An International Literature Review - Final Report
  The report summarises the work of the cross-frontier group which was established, within the framework of Interreg IV, to consider the concept of self-efficacy.
• Teenage Parents’ Experiences of Parenthood and Views of Family Support Services in Kent - Service Users Report, Postnatal
  This document reports on the second part of a study exploring the views and experiences of teenage parents across Kent. The young people had been interviewed during the third trimester of the pregnancy and were interviewed again approximately one year after the birth of their child.
• Student Reading List No.17 - Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood
  National Children’s Bureau, Library and Information Service
• Grasping the nettle: early intervention for children, families and communities
  A practice guide executive summary to the challenges and opportunities in supporting children, families and communities through early intervention, based on effective local, national and international practice.
• Keeping children off the bottle in Bradford
  City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council is making encouraging progress in tackling child drinking. This involves an innovative range of education and awareness programmes as well as marketing and law enforcement campaigns.
• Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships
  This landmark report from the University of Bristol and the NSPCC looks at the issue of partner violence in teenage intimate relationships. It is the first UK research on teenage partner violence – spanning England, Scotland and Wales – providing a detailed picture of the incidence and impact of this form of violence on the lives of young people.
• Puppet on a string - The urgent need to cut children free from sexual exploitation
  This report looks at how we need to raise awareness to improve early identification of child sexual exploitation; to improve statutory responses and the provision of services; to improve data on the prevalence of child sexual exploitation, to strengthen the evidence base and to support professionals to appropriately share information; and to improve prosecution procedures.
• Sexualisation of Young People - Review
  This report was commissioned by the Home Office Violent Crime Unit as part of the Together We Can End Violence Against Women consultation, launched in early 2009. The consultation called for ‘a fact-finding review into the sexualisation
  of teenage girls’.