Mental health
Poor mental health can affect all aspects of young people’s lives, from educational attainment and employment opportunities to relationships and physical health. These resources promote evidence and data as well as young people’s voices to highlight how important it is to improve mental health support for young people.
Learning from the experts
Young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing
needs following sexual abuse in adolescence
Closing the employment gap
Toolkit for those supporting the employment of 16–25 year olds
experiencing mental health problems.
Rethinking support
Rethinking support
for the parents and carers of young
people with mental health
problems
GCSE attainment
How does poor mental health in the early years of secondary school impact on GCSE attainment?
Participation in sport
Scoping review of the connections between young people’s mental health and sport participation
Data on young people’s health inequalities
New data published today by AYPH as part of the Health Foundation’s Young people's future health inquiry show the scale and complexity of young people’s health inequalities, and the need for action....
The experiences of young people and their families living with excess weight
Young people and their families living with excess weight experience huge stigma and judgement. As the NHS delivers new clinics for excess weight we are delighted to share the results of work with...
Engaging young people in health services research and service design
To what extent are our current systems for ethical engagement with young people covering all the bases? What do young people think are the ethical issues raised by their involvement in research and...
Reasons to invest in the health of 10-24 year olds – what the data tell us
AYPH’s Research Lead, Ann Hagell, sets out UK data-based reasons for investing in young people’s health Good health for young people is central to their wellbeing and forms the bedrock for good...
Young people and their mental health – Is there a crisis? And is it the one we think it is?
There has been much discussion about the increase in mental health problems in young people in recent years, both around the drivers and the consequences. In Key Data on Young People 2021, we have...
The impact of COVID-19 on young people in university and at work
Jose Vinaixa Kinnear was a Policy and Communications Intern with AYPH in the autumn of 2021, helping with the final stages of publication and dissemination of the next edition of ‘Key Data on Young...
How could the Government Spending Review deliver for young people?
In the wake of the Government’s 2021 Spending Review, AYPH’s Rachael McKeown outlines the ways in which central government should be supporting young people as they recover from the impact of the...
Trying to pin down UK youth homelessness data
Lucy Ross is a research intern at AYPH, helping to collate data for the next edition of ‘Key Data on Young People’, which AYPH publishes every two years. In this blog she explains some of the...
Young people and Covid-19: where are we up to?
Recognising the tyranny of the mean, worrying about the exacerbation of health inequalities, and watching out for the slow-burn effects: what we learned from summarising the evidence on the impact...