Next Steps in the news
In July 2010, the Department for Education published its third National Statistics Bulletin which explores a wide range of issues that we have covered with you in the interviews over the years. The findings around teenage pregnancy have been picked up by national and international media, as demonstrated in the links below:
- The Guardian
- Children & Young People Now
- Nursing Times
- The Daily Mail
- Sky News
- The Sun
- The Express
- The Metro
The figures on which all of these articles are based can be found at: http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SBU/b000937/b01-2010v2.pdf
2009
In November 2009, Department for Education (previously known as the Department for Children, Schools and Families) launched it’s anti-bullying week and research from the Next Steps study featured heavily in this. You may have seen the news or read in the papers that Department for Education (previously known as the Department for Children, Schools and Families) have recently conducted research which found that name-calling was the most common form of bullying in secondary school and that if parents were aware of their child being bullied, the chances of the child still being bullied in the following year were reduced. This research used data from Next Steps study. For more information on this please see the following links:
2008
In December 2008, the Cabinet Office published a joint report from the Social Exclusion Task Force and the Department for Communities and Local Government which used some data from the Next Steps study. It focused on aspirations and attainments of young people in deprived communities, some of its findings include:
- Perhaps unsurprisingly parents are the biggest and most important influence on a young person as he or she grows up, but those around where they live can also be influential. However, not all deprived communities are the same. In some very deprived communities – often ethnically diverse, mobile, urban neighbourhoods – young people tend to have high aspirations for the future. In other areas – often traditional working class communities in ex-industrial areas – low aspirations may be preventing young people from achieving their potential.
- Young people’s aspirations for the future have a significant influence on how well they do at school and beyond, and between the ages of 11 and 14, young people’s ambitions for the future develop to become much more realistic.
Follow the links below to see just some of the things that have been written about the Next Steps study in the newspapers:
You can also find the published report that these articles were based on by following this link:
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SBU/b000795/index.shtml.
