Archives for the 'support' Category
“Why label me because I’m in care?”
This month Enquire interviewed James, Melissa and Russell, three young people who all have experience of being in care. If you’re in care then sometimes this gets called being ‘looked after’. As Melissa says in the interview, there are more looked after young people than you might think. In fact, over 12,000 young people in Scotland [...]
Congratulations to the Youth Commission on Alcohol for their report on alcohol culture in Scotland
Hi blog readers, Just been reading the Youth Commission on Alcohol report. Wow! It’s great! The young people involved have spent a year doing research about Scotland’s relationship to alcohol. They have talked to doctors, politicians from all over Europe, people in the alcohol industry and many children and young people affected by alcohol mis-use. [...]
Missed out on school? Young people in Falkirk tell Enquire what helps
Hello blog readers, How are you? Looking forward to the Easter holiday? Last week I went to Camelon to meet some of the pupils in the Interrupted Learners Group, which is run by Falkirk council. The people in the group have been unable to go to school because of mental health and medical reasons, as [...]
Interview with Keith Gray, winner of Royal Mail Scottish Children’s Book Awards
Last week Enquire hung out with Keith Gray, the author whose book Ostrich Boys recently won the Royal Mail Scottish Children’s Book Awards. The book is about 3 teenage lads whose friend Ross has died in a traffic accident. Ross had told his friends that he always wanted to go to a village by the [...]
The one in which Enquire enjoys festive cheer with the LGBT Youth Council
Dear blog readers Last Friday I made my merry way through snow, ice and Christmas shoppers to visit the LGBT National Youth Council and interview some of its members. The Council is a network of young people aged 13-26 from across Scotland. Its members are elected to represent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) young people [...]
Being bullied? Check out this You Tube film
Dear blog readers How are you? Starting to get in the festive spirit? This week I watched this awesome film about bullying. It was made by pupils at John Ogilvie High School and it was one of the winners of Scotland’s Anti-Bullying Week competition. The sound track and acting are great. And its got some [...]
Alcohol culture in Scotland… let’s get it sorted
Peer pressure, stress at school, isolation … these were just some of the issues about alcohol that came up in a podcast I did last week with Siobhan, one of the young people on the Youth Commission on Alcohol. The Commission is a group of young people from different parts of Scotland who are looking [...]
Calling all school leavers!
Hello dear blog readers, how are you? Enjoying the summer holidays? Some of you will be starting your final year of school at the end of August. How are you feeling? Excited? Nervous? Not sure what to do next? Check out this Enquire Young People’s guide Getting Ready to Leave School. In the guide you’ll [...]
Stressed out?
Last week I went to an event about supporting young people’s mental health. People sometimes say silly things about mental health. Maybe they don’t really understand what it means. But the truth is that all of us have days when we feel rubbish from time to time. When bad stuff happens, or people hurt us [...]
‘About us’ – a new video in British Sign Language
As a contribution to Deaf Awareness Week from the 4 – 10 May 2009, I’ve uploaded a new video in BSL (British Sign Language) to our website. The video is 7 minutes long and it describes what we do in Enquire. It has English subtitles and there’s also an MP3 audio version on the page. [...]
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