Preventing child sexual abuse through education: the work of Stop it Now! Wales. Authors: Kirsty Hudson Format: Article Summary: Presents findings from an evaluation of education and awareness raising programmes aimed at parents, carers and professionals to prevent child sexual abuse, delivered by Stop it Now! Wales. Finds that participants reported benefits from attending the programmes, however this varied by type of programme and impact reported. Journal: Journal of Sexual Aggression...

Young people who engage in child sexual exploitation behaviours: an exploratory study. Authors: Simon Hackett and Stephen Smith Format: Online report Summary: Looks at young people who engage in sexually exploitative behaviours. Findings from a study of 14 official case records include: experiences of adversity were found in the developmental histories of 10 of the 14 young people, with domestic violence the most commonly reported factor; 12 of the young people had long-standing non-sexual...

The relationship between attachment dimensions and emotion regulation in individuals who have committed sexual crimes. Authors: Melissa D. Grady and Joseph J. Shields Format: Article Summary: Cross-sectional study looking at the relationship between attachment and emotional regulation capacities in adult male sex offenders. The study consisted of 59 incarcerated adult male sex offenders. Attachment dimensions were measured using the relationship scales questionnaire and the adult attachment...

"Give me some space": exploring youth to parent aggression and violence. Authors: Lynne Gabriel, Zahra Tizro, Hazel James, Jane Cronin-Davis, Tanya Beetham, Alice Corbally, Emily Lopez-Moreno and Sarah Hill Format: Article Summary: Research project undertaken by Independent Domestic Abuse Services (IDAS) looking at youth aggression and violence against parents. Data was generated through conversations with young people, semi structured interviews with mothers, interviews and a focus group...

Paige Hunter said she only wanted to help others struggling to talk about mental health issues. Now, a local police department is honoring the 18-year-old for what they called an “inspired” idea that has literally saved lives. Hunter wrote dozens of encouraging letters and posted the signs along the Wearmouth Bridge in Sunderland, England. Paige said she never wanted an award, just a better way to cope with the often overwhelming burden of mental illness. And she's expanding her efforts to...

The Annual Bullying Survey 2018 published their findings, based from 9,000 young people questioned in the UK. The research is shining a much-needed light on the current climate of bullying for young people and are calling for victims and witnesses to report bullying. The impact of bullying on mental health shows a concerning trend, most notably amongst the LGBT+ community. A staggering 31 per cent had attempted suicide as a result of being bullied, with 51 per cent admitting to self harming.

A local group of parents, teachers and childcare professionals are aiming to revolutionise the way Cumbria thinks about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and mental health in an ambitious bid to become one of the UK’s first “ACEs aware- trauma-informed communities”. The CUMBRIA RESILIENCE PROJECT have already received interest and support for their plans from a wide range of local services, including schools, health centres, disability groups and youth services. Their social media forum...

A new plan was launched at the Greater Manchester Health and Care Board which will help hundreds of thousands of children and young people in Greater Manchester to get better health and care to improve their development and fulfil their potential. The four-year plan maps out how agencies in the region will work closer together to make sure local services offered from before birth through to adulthood, will give every child across Greater Manchester the best possible start in life. The...

Young people are being encouraged to get comfortable talking about domestic abuse as Greater Manchester’s ground-breaking awareness campaign tours schools and youth centres across the city-region. The ‘Sitting Right With You’ campaign was first launched in October 2016 and features imagery of a yellow sofa accompanied by challenging messages to get people thinking differently about what domestic abuse is and encouraging victims to take that first step and ask for help. Now, the campaign –...

New mothers should receive a mental health checkup six weeks after giving birth to help tackle possible postnatal depression and other problems related to having a baby, ministers have been told. A cross-party group of 60 MPs and peers have written to Steve Brine, the minister for public health and primary care, demanding that all mothers in England have an assessment of their emotional and mental health carried out by a GP, practice nurse or health visitor. They say that making such...

For many children, the transition to a traditional elementary school setting, whether it be from home or a pre-school environment, represents a radical discontinuity - not just in terms of their physical environment, but on multiple levels, including values, behavioral and learning expectations, teacher attitudes, emotional support, etc. What if, in line with the latest neuroscientific discoveries about brain maturation, we were to re-envision early childhood education as commencing at birth...

Some of England and Wales's favourite seaside resort areas are now among the towns with the highest rates of deaths from the misuse of heroin/morphine. Six of the 10 local authority districts in England and Wales with the highest rates of heroin- and/or morphine-misuse deaths are coastal holiday resorts, figures have revealed. Places that may have been more synonymous with family holidays are among the 10 areas that saw the highest rates of drugs misuse fatalities where heroin and/or...