This report focuses on young people’s advice needs in relation to social welfare rights-based issues, such as housing, homelessness, welfare benefits, debt, employment rights, education rights, social services and discrimination.
It sets out the available evidence and attempts to explain the implications of the evidence in greater detail than has been done before.
The purpose of the report is to provide a one-stop evidence resource for anyone wishing to understand this complex subject and respond appropriately.
It is hoped that this report will be used by:
- Providers developing advice services for young people to inform their models of delivery and to refer to the most relevant evidence in their applications for funding;
- Policy-makers in the legal and youth sectors to inform their policies, priorities and strategies;
- Funders to ensure they focus their limited funding on projects that have been designed on the basis of the evidence available; and
- Researchers with an interest in the subject to inform further research.
You can access both the full and summary reports below.