statistics

• work and employment

  • those who are 14/15 cannot work more than 12 hours during a school week
  • those under 13 cannot do paid work
  • those under 18 have a min wage of £6.40, those 21+ have min wage of £11.44 - young people = cheap labour
• youth unemployment - IPPR

  • there are 868k out of work 16-24 year olds, and 247k of them have been looking for work for over a year
  • 700k young people have never had a job
  • youth unemployment is lower in countries where the route into employment through formal education and training is as clear as the academic route
• pensions and retirement

  state pension age is 66. Those who wish to retire below this age are mostly unable to because they cannot claim their state pensions, and therefore are forced to work for longer
• poverty, wealth and income - child poverty

  • 3.5 million children live in poverty in the UK - 1/3 of all children
  • 63% of children living in poverty are in a family where someone works
  • According to End Child poverty the areas with the most child poverty are: bethnal green (49%), and manchester central (44%)
• JRF (joseph rowntree foundation)


  668k households, containing 1.2m people, where 312k were children, were destitute at some point in 2015
• Health: Age UK, 2015

  • 51% of older people claim that they recieve poor standards of healthcare
• crime


  • in 2012, 37% of all ASBOs were issued to those aged 10-17
  • Home office data - young males aged 10-17 were responsible for 20% of all police recorded crimes in 2009/10 with young females accounting for 4%
• Crime - Jacobson et al 2010

  out of 200 children in custody:

  • 1/4 witnessed domestic violence
  • 1/4 had been in care
  • 3/4 had absent fathers
  • 1/2 lived in a deprived household
  • 1/2 ran away at some point
  • 1/2 had been excluded from school
• Crime

  2006 OCJS

  • 8% of children released from custody reoffend within a year
  • 11% of children in prison have attempted suicide
  • fewer than 1% of all children in England are in care, but looked after children make up 33% of boys and 61% of girls in custody