


A warm welcome for You’re Welcome: new quality criteria for youth friendly health services
Last week the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) published a revised and updated version of the You’re Welcome quality criteria for youth friendly health services. AYPH welcomes the criteria and in this blog we reflect on the content and some...
Reimagining food in secondary schools
As part of the We Are Food Secure 11-19 project in Newham over 40 stakeholders got together last month to brainstorm how secondary schools can play a part in reducing food insecurity for teenagers. In the first stage of this Health Foundation funded project we had...
Are young people a priority within current government policy?
Last year we saw a number of dramatic changes within UK Government, which had far-reaching impacts on wider society. As the dust settles in 2023, we’re reflecting on what the changes mean for young people’s health policy. In this blog post, Rachael McKeown provides an...
Newham’s We Are Food Secure 11-19 project – how is it going?
Despite a huge focus on the cost of living crisis in the UK and the increase in food banks, we really do not know much about how food insecurity is experienced by teenagers, or the particular impact on their health and wellbeing. Yet there are many good reasons for...