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Advice improves young people’s lives

18 December, 2011

A major new report launched today by Youth Access demonstrates the critical difference that getting good advice can make to young people’s health and well-being.

Key findings in the report, The outcomes and impact of youth advice – the evidence, include:

Social welfare problems (e.g. relating to housing, benefits, debt and employment) have a disproportionate adverse impact on disadvantaged young adults
Young people’s unresolved problems carry a substantial cost to wider society and the public purse.
Getting advice from a youth advice service averts serious adverse outcomes, such as homelessness and mental health problems, and leads to improvements in many aspects of young people’s well-being.
Youth advice services can contribute to the achievement of a range of major central and local government policy goals relating to health, education, employment, housing, poverty, crime and child protection.
Advice is most effective when it is delivered early through independent, face-to-face advice services provided alongside emotional and mental health support as part of a holistic young person-focussed service.

Download the report