Sentences with phrase «significant number of young people»

The delineation between Youth Health Services and Mental Health Services needs to be reconsidered in light of the fact that a significant number of young people accessing these services are significantly distressed and identify with a having a mental health issue.

A significant number of young people attending these services experience high levels of general psychological distress compared with the general population.

The primary healthcare service provides for a population of 764 Indigenous Australians aged 10 — 24 years, which represents 28.5 % of a total of 2677 Indigenous persons in the local population.34 The community - based youth service serves a population of approximately 4338 Indigenous young people aged 10 — 24 years, which represents 30.1 % of a total of 14 391 Indigenous persons in the local population.34 The client base of both services includes a significant number of young people who move between the regional centre and the remote and very remote communities of far north Queensland.

Mr Hobby added: «For a significant number of young people and their schools, moving the goalposts in this way will jeopardise not only places at sixth - form college and other arenas of post-16 education but university applications and beyond as well as the schools» status with regard to the government's own benchmark.»

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Significant numbers of millennials (young people born in the 1980s and 1990s) will continue to walk away from socially conservative religious traditions.

«So far our experience has been that a significant number of placements turn into jobs, with the employer getting to like the young person and keeping them on.

I saw a significant number of people, mostly young, arriving with their passport already in hand, clearly expecting to be asked for it.

Supported by the BFI with Lottery funding, together with funding from the film industry and a number of other sources, Into Film incorporates the legacy and staff of two leading film education charities, FILMCLUB and First Light, building on their experience and success in delivering programmes of significant scale and reach to children and young people across the UK.

As I said in the first article of this series - Lessons from PISA - no matter how you read the results of PISA 2012 in relation to the mathematical skills of our young people, there is a significant number of 15 - year - old Australians who do not have access to sufficient numeracy and mathematical skills to be able to cope equitably with life in the 21st Century.

Tech firms connect with schools Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: «We know a significant number of jobs in the future will be in the tech industry, which is why we are committed to supporting tech companies to connect with our schools — preparing young people to succeed in the global race.

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

New research published by the National Literacy Trust shows a significant drop in the number of young people writing outside the classroom.

Ofsted has warned that a number of young people are at «significant risk of harm» from attending unregistered schools across the country.

These guys and gals refuse to consider the possibility that a «school reform» which reduces students and teachers to data points simply can not produce significant numbers of capable, well - rounded, well - adjusted young people.

Director Rich Cordray gave a presentation in which he said, «Student loan debt is one of the most significant burdens facing our young people, and it certainly hits close to home for a growing number of Americans.»

Young people, specifically males between 16 - 25, are involved in a significant number of collisions, enough for actuaries to charge this demographic more.

There are now record numbers of care proceedings and recent cases before the family courts have highlighted significant gaps in good practice where the powers in section 20 Children Act 1989 are used to place children and young people in care without going to court.

The REAL Act represents a significant step toward reducing the numbers of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections among young people.

The out - of - home care provisions of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 make a number of significant improvements in the provision of out - of - home care services in NSW.