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Posts Tagged ‘PSHE’

Home Affairs Select Committee

Posted By: Liam Challenger

On Tuesday 21st Feb, Mentor's Chief Executive Paul Tuohy gave oral evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committees inquiry into the current drugs strategy. One of the key questions was how could the Government's approach to drug education be improved? By doing what the ...

Pretty Stupid Holes in Education

Posted By: Liam Challenger

Chante Joseph, one of our volunteers from Mentor Youth, talks about her experiences of PSHE. What has happened to the drug education for young people? PSHE isn't an informative lesson any more, it's a free period to gossip about EastEnders. The way I see it is ...

London Youth Involvement Project (interim) Seminar February 2012

Posted By: Liam Challenger

Simon Claridge our Projects Officer writes about this week's seminar With 2 days to go all preparations are complete and in place, down to charging mini-speakers!  The achievements of a group of young people is remarkable, having set out to canvass ...

1 in 3 say not enough drug education in school

Posted By: admin

The Department for Education's consultation on their internal review of how the government should support schools in the delivery of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education comes to a close today. PSHE is often the subject heading that drug education ...

Drug prevention programmes in schools: What is the evidence?

Posted By: Liam Challenger

Mentor has recently reviewed the literature around drug prevention in schools. We found that research has demonstrated that universal drug education programmes in schools can have an impact on the most common substances used by young people: alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. ...