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Dorset Young Researchers? Are a Group of Young People, Aged 14-18 from Across Dorset, Trained in Research, Facilitation and Presentation Skills 2017 - 2018 Young people trained in research skills carried out research to shape service development of local authorities and their partners. 2017 - 2018 they researched the topics of social isolation, volunteering and young people's aspirations. This is their full report. Funded by Dorset County Council • Delivered by The Participation People Who are the Dorset Young Researchers? Are a group of young people, aged 14-18 from across Dorset, trained in research, facilitation and presentation skills. Young Researchers is a project involving 3,000 young people, The Participation People and Dorset County Council. 2,480 s t n The project began in 2012. Since then, e d n 1,960 young people have been asked to research o p s e r the following topics: f o r 1,440 e b m 1. Life skills u N 2. Health and happiness 920 3. Feeling safe and bullying 4. Employment and careers 400 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 This year, they were asked to investigate Year young people's habits, perceptions and lived There was a lot of data to crunch! These are our "HEADLINE" stats: experiences of: 50% of young people who access Pupil Premium say they don't 1. Social isolation know what they will do after their formal education finishes. 2. Aspirations 40% don't feel secure with their social media privacy settings. 3. Volunteering opportunties 55% of young people think that a lack confidence may stop them from achieving their career goals. Young Researchers have learnt and 62% say that social media increases bullying. improved on lots of skills throughout the 42% said that lack of jobs could make them leave Dorset. project. The top 10 include: 51% of young people volunteered in the last year. 41% of young people struggle to make friends. 1. Confidence 48% of young people want a part time job. 2. Communication skills 39% of young people want access to work experience opportunities. 3. Team work 9% of young people don't feel included in their family. 4. How to ask the right question Rural respondents feel the most isolated from "opportunities" 5. Data analysis compared to their urban living counterparts. 6. Presentation skills Young people rely heavily on their parents and carers to get to 7. Measuring impact where they need to go; 98% use their parents car compared to 8. Scrutiny public transport alternatives. 9. Speaking with different audiences 48% of young people don't know how to access health services 10. Problem solving including sexual health, mental health and their GP. How did they complete their research? The Young Researchers designed and delivered a county wide survey and focus groups with young people across Dorset. 24 young people aged 14-18 were recruited from: Beaminster, Budmouth, Lytchett, Gryphon, Shaftesbury, Sturminster, Thomas Hardye's, Gillingham Schools and sixth forms. Every school and college were written to and invited to take part. Young Researchers applied for the position and were interviewed. They were put through a rigorous training and induction programme to: 1. Learn skills needed for the project. 2. Understand the research topics. This method has been developed in Dorset County Council, NHS and over 6 years in partnership with Police. 3. Run desk top research. professional researchers and Dorset County Council. We are very excited to hear what 4. Design the survey. decision makers think about the data This was the highest number of 5. Facilitate focus groups. and how they will use it to inform their survey returns this project has seen; planning and budgets for 2018 - 2019. 6. Promote the survey. with 7% of Dorset's 11-18 year old population taking part. The Dorset Youth Council will ensure 7. Analyse data and report writing. that decision makers: We put this down to the enthusiasm 8. Present to decision makers and and hard work of the Young 1. Respond Dorset Youth Council. Researchers themselves and new 2. Make action plans school and college relationships 9. Create feedback loop for decision 3. Follow up on what they promised with School Councils and support makers to share what has changed as a from Dorset County Council. result of using this data. They will also be responsible for The data captured from young helping the Young Researchers 10. Feedback to young people what has people will inform decision making feedback to young people what has changed. changed! Who answered their questions? We asked young people in Schools, Colleges, Learning Centres and Youth Clubs to ensure as many people as possible could take part. Graph showing % survey respondents by age 2,758 young people finished the survey. Which is 1,316 more than Year 8 last year. Year 9 This is 7% of Dorset's 11-18 year Year 10 old population. Which is statistically significant. Year 11 We were thrilled to have: Year 12 Year 13 42 : 52 : 4 percentage split of male: female: other/ prefer not Year 14 to say respondents. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 A good geographical spread of % respondents who completed the survey respondents; with 38% living rurally and 59% living in an Graph showing % survey respondents by learning setting urban setting e.g. Town. A good age range of Beaminster School respondents. Blandford School 275 young people responding Budmouth College who access Pupil Premium and Ferndown Upper or free school meals. Gillingham School An almost 50:50 split of rural: Gryphon School Highcliffe School urban living. Kingston Maurward College 37% responding with a Lychett Minster learning difficulty / disability. Purbeck School 134 young people taking part Queen Elizabeth's School Shaftsbury who were/ are in care. Sturminster Newton High... Thomas Hardye School Wey Valley School Weymouth College Other 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 % respondents from each learning setting Population data It is always useful to compare our data with the population data of Dorset. Here are a few interesting stats for you... We had a very high response from 14 and 15 Graph showing number of survey respondents year olds across Dorset. as a percentage of population We put this down to many of the Young Researchers being a similar age and able to School Number of As a % of the year survey School year influence their Head of Year to roll out the respondents population survey in form tutor time. 7 144 3 We captured a high number of respondents on 8 140 3 pupil premium vs the population data. And 30% 9 593 13 of Dorset's Looked After children also responded, 10 1,186 26 which is much higher than last year (8%). 11 335 7 We had a few silly answers to our survey too. 12 361 7 Where young people might have written swear 13 258 5 words or not answered the question or 13+ 3 0 completed the survey. We cleaned those up. Total 3,020 We have also compared and contrasted Graph showing number of pupil premium respondent answers from the following respondents compared to % population categories: accessing pupil premium Young people aged 15 and under Total number of As a % of School respondents population Young people aged 16 and over year accessing pupil accessing pupil Young people living rurally premium premium Young people living in an urban setting 7 35 6 Young people on pupil premium 8 33 8 Young people in care or have experiences Dorset's care system 9 71 13 Male and female answers 10 59 12 11 44 9 12 22 16 13 11 10 Total 275 Equality data Graph showing % survey respondents by Graph showing % survey respondents gender: accessing pupil premium or free school meals 77 52 42 10 8 4 2 % of survey respondents % of survey respondents Male Female Other/ prefer not to say No Yes Not sure Prefer not to say Graph showing % survey respondents by Graph showing % of survey respondents by sexual orientation learning difficulty or disability 81 3 67 7 3 6 10 12 2 6 % of survey respondents % of survey respondents Gay, Lesbian or bisexual Other / prefer not to say No I don't have a disability Hearing Visual Straight Physical Learning Mental health condition A long-standing illness (eg. diabetes, epilepsy, cancer) Other Equality data Graph showing % survey respondents by Graph showing % survey respondents by area they live in (respondents chose their ethnicity response) 81 59 4 31 3 2 6 1 1 2 1 % of survey respondents % of survey respondents Rural Village Town Other Asian or Asian British Black or Black British Mixed ethnic background Prefer not to say White - any other White background White - British White - Gypsy / Romany / Traveller Graph showing % survey respondents by religion and faith 1 69 1 2 2 1 25 4 % of survey respondents Christianity Judaism Islam Buddhism Hinduism Inter/ non-denominational No religion Other FAIR AND EQUAL DATA? HEALTH WARNING! For the rest of this report we have used "weighted" data. When Numbers of young people by we conduct research, the whole point is to draw conclusions age and gender living in about the population, rather than just our sample. Dorset 2016. Weighting is used to adjust the results to bring them more in line with what is known about a population. For example, we Age Males Females had loads more answers from 14 and 15 year olds (year 8) and 11 2200 2100 the population contains roughly the same number of 11, 12, 12 2200 2100 13, 14 and 15 year olds. Weighting has been used to correct 13 2300 2100 for this discrepancy. 14 2300 2100 Where we felt the data was significantly different compared to 15 2300 2200 age, gender, pupil premium, area they live - we have made 16 2500 2400 reference to that in the analysis.
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