Since 2016, Youth Homeless North East have been working and consulting with young homeless people in the North East about what effect New Psychoactive Substances (NPS –Former ‘Legal Highs’) have had on their lives and what affect the ban, introduced in May 2016, has had on their use and supply. We have been working with young people to co-produce an awareness raising session to deliver
Read more →The Department for Work & Pensions (the Department) is introducing Universal Credit to replace six means-tested benefits for working-age households: Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, Housing Benefit, Employment and Support Allowance, Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit. In doing so, it aims to: encourage more people into work by introducing better financial incentives, simpler processes and increasing requirements on claimants to search for jobs; reduce
Read more →Tackling Youth Homelessness in the North East Conference – Newcastle and Middlesbrough Friday, 6 July, 2018 – 09:00 to 15:30 Auditorium, Mea House, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 8XS. Tackling Youth Homelessness Event – Newcastle Friday, 27 July, 2018 – 09:00 to 15:30 Jurys Inn Hotel, Fry Street, Middlesbrough. TS1 1JH Tackling Youth Homelessness – Middlesbrough Youth Homeless North East would like to invite you
Read more →Youth Homeless North East are running a project to help build peer support for young people experiencing homelessness in collaboration with Open Lab, Newcastle University. The project is based around a six-week game played in a Facebook group with other young people. The game is set in 2030, and the country is falling apart. The government agency set up to deal with the crisis have
Read more →Youth Voice Journal have launched a Special Issue, with Special Guest editor is Dr Jason Schaub from Birmingham University, titled Sexual Orientation and Young People. This release highlights the journey that young people face while dealing with LGBT+ issues. While the treatment of LGBT+ communities world wide is improving, there is a hidden struggle within the community that is often looked over. The challenges of gay, lesbian and
Read more →Prime Minister Theresa May has announced the launch of an innovative new programme to address ethnic disparities in youth unemployment and to help disadvantaged young people get into work. The announcement comes after Theresa May’s challenge to society to ‘explain or change’ disparities in how people from different backgrounds are treated, following the publication of the Race Disparity Audit – the government’s ground-breaking audit of public services,
Read more →The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published an analysis of characteristics and circumstances associated with loneliness in England using the Community Life Survey, 2016 to 2017. Findings from the analysis include: younger adults aged 16 to 24 years reported feeling lonely more often than those in older age groups with 9.78% reporting that they felt lonely often or always; 22.96% felt lonely some of
Read more →As the Resolution Foundation’s Intergenerational Commission enters its final stages, this report sets out our view on how we can tackle one of the biggest issues for young people in 21st century Britain: the housing crisis. Here, we move beyond a diagnosis of the problem and instead set out a series of policy options relating to three key areas of our housing challenge: insecurity in the
Read more →YHNE are looking for Young People to get involved in this important project – our 2017 Annual Survey found that Mental Health needs were the number 1 support need for young homeless people in the North East. We would like young people to help us: Design an awareness raising session around young people’s mental health Co-produce a self-help guide for other young people Explore their
Read more →Justlife have launched their latest report, ‘Lifting the Lid on Hidden Homelessness: A New Analysis’, which presents the latest findings of ongoing research in this area but critically on the massive failure of the homeless system to account for the number of people living in unsupported temporary accommodation. Research conducted by Justlife in the last 12 months reveals that over 51,500 individuals and families are
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