Research by Eaves and London South Bank University, Breaking down the barriers (Bindel, Brown, Easton, Matthews and Reynolds, forthcoming), identified problematic drug and/or alcohol use as the most common barrier
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Reducing mental ill-health in the UK is a significant policy challenge. Mental ill-health is prevalent in the working-age population and is associated with high economic and social costs. Mental health
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This research reviews trends in employment among couple families with children and considers policies and the wider context in four areas likely to affect their employment rate: family leave, childcare,
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What might social services look like in 2025? In 2013 IRISS ran a series of workshops to help us understand the technical, medical and cultural forces that will shape
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The document sets out 25 priorities for change. It details how changes in local service planning and delivery will make a difference to the lives of people with mental health
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Statutory guidance setting out the steps LAs and their partners should take to stop children from going missing and to protect those who do. This statutory guidance is for:
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The Flying Start programme aims to improve outcomes for children in some of the most deprived areas across Wales. This is done through providing four key Flying Start entitlements to
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The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety today published a statistical bulletin summarising information on young care leavers aged 16 to 18 in Northern Ireland who left care
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The purpose of this report is to elucidate young people’s self-harming behaviour in order to find possible causes, risk and protection factors to generate ideas for effective preventive measures. The
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This paper has been used to inform guidelines for developing effective pre-16 early identification systems, which will be set out in the forthcoming Youth Engagement and Progression Framework. Focusing on
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