Bij de buren (Verenigd Koninkrijk)
vrijdag, 20 mei 2011
Recent verschenen twee interessante engelstalige onderzoeken, een bij de Foyer Federation over jonge ouders (155 female en 100 male!). En een onderzoek over armoede bij jongeren door de Prince's Trust.
Conclusies over de Teenage Parent:
From the responses received to the survey and given in the leadership workshop, the following conclusions can be drawn:
1. Where the value of expertise in providing enhanced support for teenage parents is well understood and promoted, this can have a significant impact
in improving outcomes for teenage parents themselves;
2. The Teenage Parent Supported Housing Pilots have demonstrated that enhanced housing support for teenage parents delivers outcomes that cut across different areas of priority for national and local Government. It is essential that the leaders of projects that deliver housing support for teenage parents are aware of what these priorities are and can articulate them to appropriate audiences;
3. Whilst elements of conditionality are inherent in most service relationships, these could be better understood and perhaps, as a result, the beneficial elements of the conditional relationship for the service user could be better exploited;
4. Provided that due attention is paid to the skills and knowledge of support staff, the engagement and involvement of young people as service users and relationships with other services as discussed earlier in the report, it is clear that floating support can provide an effective option in terms of enhanced housing support for teenage parents;
5. Engaging and involving young people in the support offer is an essential criterion for the success of enhanced housing support;
6. In some cases supported lodgings may be a beneficial option, particularly for teenage parents whose needs are lower than average.
Het armoede rapport heeft de title "Broke, not broken"
Het wordt op de site als volgt aangekondigd:
"The aspiration gap between the UK’s richest and poorest young people is creating a ‘youth underclass’ - who tragically feel they have no future. We simply cannot ignore this inequality" ... “This report highlights the urgent need to tackle social immobility in the UK. There is an ambition crisis among our poorest young people, causing thousands to lose faith in their own abilities and aspirations. These feelings of hopelessness are often passed down from generation to generation and can spread throughout our most deprived communities"
Het rapport is te downloaden als je wat gegevens op hun site invult: http://www.princes-trust.org.uk Mail anders even dan sturen we het rapportje op.
