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Having interviewed 300 young people aged 16 to 25, the charity Fixers, who undertook the study, found that 27 per cent of young people said they had felt pressured into sexting, sexual activity, drinking alcohol or taking drugs while in or around school; 34 per cent did not feel safe walking to and from school; and 12 per cent had been sexually assaulted.

This commitment doesn't stop once the young people have completed their programmes; research shows that 82 per cent of young people said that their DofE has made them want to continue with volunteering activities in the future.

Twenty - five per cent of young people said they believed in God, 19 % believed in a non-Godlike «spiritual greater power» and 38 % were atheists who didn't believe in any greater spiritual power.

Thirty - four per cent of young people said it was «easy» to get the drugs.

87 per cent of young people say they feel more proud to be an Arab since the Arab Spring, and a majority feel the region's best days are ahead.

Not exact matches

BMO says 84.4 per cent of households headed by young people owe some form of debt, compared with 82 per cent of the same households in 1984.

A recent survey claimed that among a group of young people who called themselves Christian, forty five per cent said they did not believe in God.

Indeed, he emphasised that he found it «very worrying» that 12 per cent of young people in receipt of EMA had said they wouldn't stay in education if it were withdrawn.

Forty - one per cent of young people told pollsters «religion is more often the cause of evil in the world» while only 14 % said it was a cause for good.

Another choice we've said we'd make differently is on taxation and tuition fees — while under the Conservative - led government banks are benefiting from a 5 per cent cut in corporation tax, — Labour thinks that money would be better used bringing down the cap on tuition fees, to help young people worried about the costs of going to university.

In a recent survey, only 55 per cent of young French people who said they had had sex in the previous 12 months claimed to have used a condom.

According to research published by children's mental health charity Place2B, in partnership with union NAHT, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), 34 per cent of counsellors and psychotherapists who work with children and young people said it was difficult to provide their services to schools.

Of course, this is by no means to suggest that the 25 per cent of young people who said they had heard about or taken part in a Tomorrow's Engineers Week activity in November will go on to become engineerOf course, this is by no means to suggest that the 25 per cent of young people who said they had heard about or taken part in a Tomorrow's Engineers Week activity in November will go on to become engineerof young people who said they had heard about or taken part in a Tomorrow's Engineers Week activity in November will go on to become engineers.

Roy Perry, chairman of the children and young people board at the Local Government Association, said ranking councils by school results «disguises the fact that over 60 per cent of secondary schools are now academies, leaving councils powerless to intervene early and build an improvement programme».

And of the older adults who took part, 95 per cent surveyed said their view of young people had improved as a result of the challenge.

The Survey Report also states that post 16 course closures have reduced the range of art and design courses offered for young people, 34 per cent of teachers and lecturers saying that in the last five years these courses have closed in their institutions.

Thirty per cent of survey respondents found applying to university difficult, 40 % report receiving little support from their school in planning their application, and 38 % say they felt intimidated when applying for university — highlighting the value of supporting young people during the process.

Most of the bullying focus on weight and body shape, with 60 per cent of young people admitting they tried to change their appearance after being bullied and 24 per cent said they reduced the amount they ate or went on a diet.

The findings are based on a survey of over 32,000 children and young people aged eight to 18 and found that daily writing levels decreasing from 27.2 per cent in 2014 to 20.7 per cent in 2015, with 44.8 per cent of respondents saying they enjoy writing either very much or quite a lot in 2015, compared to 49.3 per cent in 2014.

58 per cent of children and young people on the autism spectrum we surveyed last year said that the single thing that would make school better for them is «if teachers understood autism».

However, despite this, less than half of young people (48 per cent) surveyed said they had learned about the issue in the classroom.

Almost half (45 per cent) of speech and language therapists surveyed by the RCSLT said that they lack the time and resources to provide services to children and young people with communication problems who do not have an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

The report also highlights the vital part schools have to play in tackling body image anxiety, as three quarters of young people (76 per cent) who learned about body confidence as part of their curriculum said it made them feel more positive about themselves.

In 2015, one - fifth or reported images were self - generated and around 16 per cent of young people aged between 11 and 16 said they had sent sexual images in the UK and one in six people reported to the police for indecent images are minors themselves.

Only nine per cent of children and young people, and six per cent of parents, said they had found it easy to get the support they needed.

However the DfE highlighted a number of facts which they said show academies are having a positive impact on young people, including that sponsored academies have GCSE results more than six per cent above their predecessor schools, compared to 1.3 per cent higher in non-academies.

Forty per cent of young people surveyed said a teacher trained in dealing with bullying would have made a difference to them, but of the 170 teachers who responded to the survey, only 30 per cent there was adequate support at school to help children with mental health issues.

Only 38 per cent of older skiers and 37 per cent of young people who have ever been on a winter sports holiday say they purchased insurance for their most recent winter sports holiday.

The Ernst and Young 2016 «Digital Report» found twenty five per cent of people surveyed said they spent more time on their smart phones than talking to family, friends and partners.