Sex: worth talking about

NHS Choices
The government has launched a campaign to encourage young people to talk more openly about sex and contraception. The teenage pregnancy rate in the UK is Europe's highest and ministers want to change attitudes towards safer sex.

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Improving safety, reducing harm: children, young people and domestic violence: a practical toolkit for front-line practitioners

Department of Health
Domestic violence can have a devastating impact on children and young people, affecting their health, well being and development, as well as their educational achievement. This comprehensive toolkit for frontline professionals was developed to improve responses to a range of key issues affecting children and young people including domestic violence, bullying, sexual violence and gangs as well as child protection and risk assessments.

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Future health: sustainable places for health and well-being

CABE
Future health tells us how good design makes healthy places. It brings what CABE has learned about sustainable, health-promoting environments together with the latest thinking about health and well-being.

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Communities for health: unlocking the energy within communities to improve health

Department of Health
This document is the second report from the Communities for Health programme. It covers the two years since the publication of the report from the pilot phase of the programme, Communities for Health: Learning from the Pilots, in February 2007.

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Healthy Child Programme: the two year review

Department of Health
The two year review aims to optimise child development and emotional wellbeing, and to reduce inequalities.. It provides practitioners, particularly health visitors, with information and tools to use with parents

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A civilized society: mental health for refugees and asylum-seekers in England and Wales

MIND
Mind is committed to inspiring the development of quality mental health services, which respond to the diverse needs of refugees and asylum-seekers. However, we know that refugees and asylum-seekers experience many difficulties in finding and accessing appropriate services.This aim of this report is to explore these difficulties in more detail and provide practical examples of how they are being overcome.

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Supporting learning disability partnership boards to implement the national Carers Strategy

Department of Health
This documant aims to tell Learning Disability Partnership Boards more about The National Carers Strategy called ‘Carers at the Heart of 21st Century Families and Communities’ and what to do to make sure that local plans for all carers include carers of people with learning disabilities and carers with a learning disability.

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