The National Youth Agency

Key Resources

Links to key resources in healthy youth work aimed at practitioners in non-formal education.

Substance Use

DrugScope
Drugs Guidance for the Youth Service
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(The above document downloads from the DrugScope website)

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A range of resources suitable for work with young people are available from Alcohol Concern and Drugscope.

Sex and Relationships Education

Sex Education Forum/National Youth Agency
Sex and Relationships Education with Young People in Non-formal Settings
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Young Disabled People: Sexuality and Personal Relationships Policy and Practice Guidelines

SRE policy and practice booklet form Sheffield Futures on working with young disabled people around sex and relationships (SR) work.

This policy and practice guidelines document, produced by the Stepping Stone sexual health project provides a policy, with definitions and underpinning values links both into the Human Rights Act (2000) and the Disability Discrimination Act and highlights the responsibilities of service providers to young disabled people. The second section, explores the pressures, and challenges for staff of this area of work, explores a range of ways of meeting the needs of young disabled people and balancing the needs of the young person with those of the carer/parent. The publication also includes a collection of links and addresses for resources for training and work with young people.

Young Disabled People - Sexuality and Personal Relationships - Policy and Practice Guidelines

Hard copies (@ £5.00 + £1.50 P&P) available from Stepping Stones Telephone 0114 201 2752

Teenage Pregnancy Unit
Enabling young people to access contraceptive and sexual health advice - Guidance for Youth Support Workers
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Brook
Under 16s, The Law and Public Policy on Sex, Contraception and Abortion in the UK
Costs £7.50 available from Brook Publications (Quote Code G:106)
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Other SRE resources suitable for work with young people are available from sexual health charities Brook and fpa.

Obesity

Children's Food Campaign
Missing the Target
In a pamphlet published by the Children’s Food Campaign, ten experts on obesity, food and children’s health tell the Government that it can do much more to tackle to health time bomb of obesity, and should start by introducing a 9pm watershed for junk food TV adverts. The pamphlet, entitled ‘Missing the Target’, explains that much more could have been done over the last few years – and can still be done now – to reduce levels of childhood obesity and improve children’s health and wellbeing.
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