NSF for children and young people in Wales.

Charity calls on Wales to focus on palliative care.

The NSF for children, young people and maternity services.

The new National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services (Department of Health, 2004) draws together current recommendations for best practice. This article highlights the points most relevant to nurses from this 10-year plan of practice improvement.

The role of Resilience in preventing drug abuse and perversions

Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate a new dimension of prevention that is called resilience. Methodology: The study seeks to find that resilient young people in similar economic conditions do not suffer from any substance or deformity. The method of this study was comparative causality and the statistical population included 18-29 year olds who were randomly assigned to 700 out of ...

The consequences of being labelled ‘looked‐after’: Exploring the educational experiences of looked‐after children and young people in Wales

The educational experiences and attainment of looked-after children and young people (LACYP) remains an issue of widespread international concern. Within the UK, children and young people in care achieve poorer educational outcomes compared to individuals not in care. Despite proliferation of research documenting the reasons for educational disadvantage amongst this population, there remains li...

Risks, Rights or Both? Evaluating the Common Aetiology of Negative and Positive Outcomes for Young People to Inform Youth Justice Practice

The policy and practice of the Youth Justice System of England and Wales has become dominated by risk-focused, offender-fi rst approaches underpinned by the deterministic, reductionist and psychosocially-biased risk factor prevention paradigm. Using the All Wales Youth Offending Strategy and the evaluation of the Welsh Assembly Government’s ‘Extending Entitlement’ youth inclusion strategy as it...