Young People's Project Report December 2019

Report - 14 December 2019

The engagement with young people was carried out through face-to-face engagement with training providers in Walsall and general outreach.

The number of young people responding to the survey was relatively small and the survey gave a limited opportunity to fully engage with the young people who took part. Therefore, the findings of the project cannot be generalised across all young people in Walsall. However, there is scope for further engagement with male participants as well as those from wider ethnic backgrounds in order to develop understanding.

The respondents indicated that they had used a range of health and social care services in the previous year. Being treated less like a child by professionals was seen as important as was the kindness with which service staff treated them.

A small percentage of the respondents said that they had been the victims of violence in the previous 12 months and a little over a third said that they had witnessed violence, although this was not within a specified time period. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 72% of respondents said that violence made them feel unsafe.

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