By The National Children’s Bureau (2012)
The review provides a synthesis of up-to-date evidence on children and young people’s views and experiences of health provision. At the time when the Government is taking forward a major programme of reform of the NHS and public health service, this review can provide valuable learning on how health services can improve to better meet the needs of its younger users.
By The Children’s Improvment Board (2012)
These guidelines have been developed on behalf of the CIB in response to feedback from commissioners of children’s services. Commissioners have indicated that market facilitation is becoming an increasingly significant part of their role, and that it presents challenges in terms of skills, activity and capacity. These guidelines are intended to help commissioners of early intervention and prevention services to consider:
• the policy and practice behind the increasing emphasis on market facilitation
• the activities involved in market facilitation
• how local information and intelligence can be used to help create a market position statement and how that can help to facilitate a more constructive relationship between commissioners, providers and families.
The document focuses particularly on services concerned with early intervention and prevention for children, young people and families, but it is also applicable to all children’s and young people’s services markets.
By the NHS Information Centre (2012)
This statistical report acts as a reference point for health issues relating to alcohol use and misuse, providing information obtained from a number of sources in a user-friendly format. It covers topics such as drinking habits and behaviours among adults (aged 16 and over) and school children (aged 11 to 15), drinking-related ill health and mortality, affordability of alcohol, alcohol related admissions to hospital and alcohol-related costs. The report contains previously published information and also includes additional new analyses.
By The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (2012)
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, in conjunction with the Home Office and the Department of Health, has developed a Value for Money (VFM) model for evaluating cost effectiveness in relation to the previous drug strategy. The VFM model approximates the crime prevention and health improvement benefits of treatment and recovery.
This report portrays a detailed explanation of how estimates were calculated for the crime component of the VFM model. It focuses upon the economic/compulsive relationship as a key explanation for drug related crime. This relationship illustrates the ability of drug addicted individuals to develop a tolerance through daily compulsive use, which can result in an expensive addiction. It estimates that drug treatment and recovery systems in England may have prevented approximately 4.9m crimes in 2010-2011, saving society an estimated £960m in costs to the public, businesses, the criminal justice system and the National Health Service.
By the Centre for Public Health, University of Liverpool (2012)
The European Survey Project on Alcohol and Drugs (ESPAD) is conducted every four years and collects comparable data on trends in substance use among 15-16 year old school pupils across Europe. This briefing presents a focused summary of key results for the UK from the 2011 survey that was undertaken on behalf of the UK by the Centre for Public Health.
Click here to view the briefing from the Centre for Public Health
Lipperman-Kreda, S. et al. Journal of Adolescent Health, 2012; 50: pp 547-552
This study investigates the associations between local tobacco policy, tobacco outlet density, and youth smoking. A primary focus is on whether local tobacco policy moderates the relation between outlet density and youth smoking. The results suggest that tobacco outlet density is related to youth smoking. In addition, local clean air policy may act as a moderator of relationship between tobacco outlet density and youth smoking, such that density is less important at moderate and high levels of this tobacco policy.
By The College Centre for Quality Improvement (2012)
These standards by the College Centre for Quality Improvement propose that services invest in the psychosocial development and well-being of young people with substance misuse problems to give them the best chance of a normal life. They have been developed in partnership with substance misuse organisations, paediatricians, psychologists and nurses