The purpose of this survey, led by Essex Public Health and Essex Youth Service on behalf of the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention group, is to gather the views of young people on a range of topics relating to relationships and sexual health, understanding what further information and support they would like and their preferred ways in which to access it. This survey...
What is the Essex Renewal Project The Essex Renewal Project brought together an independent panel of expert commissioners to examine the long-term -impacts of COVID-19, and to make recommendations on the steps required to improve outcomes and exploit future opportunities. The project was sponsored by the University of Essex and Essex County Council on behalf of Essex Partners. The ERP recognised the importance...
The Essex Youth Vaping report provides the insights from the research project conducted to understand more about children and young people’s (CYP’s) vaping in Essex. With findings from CYP, parent’s/carer’s of CYP, and secondary schools, this includes Essex information on: Scale of youth vaping, and the culture, experiences, and activities around it Levels of knowledge and awareness around vaping,...
Supporting people to live healthy lifestyles is one of the Everyone’s Essex commitments, and increasing levels of physical activity among children and young people is a key priority for the county. To inform the expansion of the Find Your Active campaign, research was needed to better understand children and young people’s attitudes and behaviours around physical activity, to inform the campaign...
The purpose of this survey, led by Essex Youth Service and Essex Public Health, was to gather the views of young people on a range of topics relating to relationships and sexual health, understanding what further information and support they would like and their preferred ways in which to access it. Following on from our first Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)...
Each year, Essex County Council sets a research topic to some of the best social science undergraduates at the University of Essex. The Challenge Project acts as an alternative to their individual undergraduate dissertation module in their final year. As a group, the students work together to provide the council with evidence which is academically accredited and cutting edge. The report...
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School's health and wellbeing survey reports 2019
