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WELCOME TO THE STORY To be notified about new issues visit www.youthscape.co.uk/ research/the-story Would you like the good news or the bad news? As you wish… IN THIS ISSUE: The bad news is that this is the last printed edition of The Story. After 22 volumes we have conceded that (for now) research will need to be delivered digitally in order to be costeffective. Also, no one could re-fold the paper version successfully – but that’s by the by. SNAPSHOT: Youth Work & Sport NEW RESEARCH: Mapping the Landscape P.3 P.4–5 The good news is that necessity is the mother of invention. It’s a bit pricey to deliver stats to you in this format, so we are going back to the drawing board to ask ourselves how research can most effectively be shared with, and shape, the youth ministry community. A weekly email? An annual report? Videos? Performance art? Your thoughts on this are very welcome at research@youthscape.co.uk. While we take time to consider these questions we will still be producing one volume of The Story each quarter – all of which will be available for free at our website. In this last printed edition you’ll find new evidence on young people and sport, the rise (or not) of vaping, youth ministry in the South West and a poster on young people and peer evangelism. We hope you find it interesting. Thanks for reading, Lucie Shuker Director of Research, Youthscape TRENDS: Vaping YOUTH WORK DIAGRAMS: Youth Workle EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT… PEER-TO-PEER EVANGELISM Research News P.6–7 P.8 REVERSE This month the Centre is saying goodbye to Gry Apeland, who has worked in the team for the last three years. Gry has provided invaluable support for all things research-related, not least The Story, and will be missed. We have also published a new piece of research called ‘Influencers: peer evangelism amongst young people in the UK’ which you can download for free at our website. P.2
SNAPSHOT: Youth Work & Sport In May this year, the Youth Sport Trust released a new report looking at the latest research on children and young people’s activity levels. Here are a few highlights… The impact of exercise on school performance. Sport has long been associated with improved wellbeing, but research is also demonstrating the long-term positive impact of physical activity on academic attainment. 1 In particular, higher levels of physical activity are positively associated with attention in adolescents, which supports learning in school. 2 Young people engage less in physical activities since the pandemic. Almost three quarters (73%) of school leaders reported children returning to school with poor levels of physical fitness following Covid-19 restrictions. 3 Overall, children’s activity levels have fallen by 13% compared to pre-pandemic levels. 4 Barriers to engaging in physical activity. Unfortunately, existing inequalities have widened since the start of the pandemic. Young people from the least affluent families remain the least active and are falling further behind, and children from Black and South Asian communities are less active than the overall average. 5 In 2021, 37% of girls said that their periods stopped them being active, an increase from 27% in 2018/19. 6 By their teenage years, 78% of girls understand the importance of an active lifestyle but only 28% really enjoy taking part in physical activity. 7 What might this mean for youth work? For lots of young people PE is a main source of exercise, and yet state secondary schools in England taught 13% fewer hours of PE in 2021 than in 2011 and not all young people enjoy these lessons. 8 Community and faith-based youth work can offer exercise and sports activities in a way that reflects their alternative value base. For example, Women in Sport suggest eight principles for success when inviting teenage girls to participate in sport, that may help build exercise-positive cultures beyond PE. These include: no judgement, giving voice and choice, clear emotional reward, invoke excitement and expand image of what ‘sporty’ looks like. 1. Booth J, Leary S, Joinson C, Ness A, Tomporowski P, Boyle J & Reilly J (2014). Associations between objectively measured physical activity and academic attainment in adolescents from a UK cohort. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 48, 265–270. 2. Booth, J. N., et al (2013) Associations between executive attention and objectively measured physical activity in adolescence: Findings from ALSPAC, a UK cohort, Mental Health and Physical Activity, 6 (3), pp.212–219. 3. Youth Sport Trust. 2020. Returning to school after COVID-19. 4. Salway et al. IntJ Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2022. Accelerometer measured physical activity and sedentary time among children and their parents in the UK before and after COVID 19 lockdowns: a natural experiment. 5. Sport England. 2021. Active Lives Children and Young People Survey – Academic year 2020–21. 6. Youth Sport Trust. Girls Active research 2021. 7. Women in Sport/Sport England. 2019. Reframing Sport for Teenage Girls: Building Strong Foundations for Their Futures. 8. Statistics: school workforce – GOV. UK. 2021. P.3
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