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Children with special educational needs more than twice as likely to be put in isolation, say Manchester researchers * ‘Publicly humiliated’: parents describe difficulty of children’s isolation at school One in 12 secondary pupils report being put into school isolation rooms at least once a week where they often spend in excess of eight hours, missing more than a full day of lessons, according to research. Children with special educational needs were more than twice as likely to be placed in isolation, otherwise known as internal exclusion, while students from low-income backgrounds were also disproportionately affected. Continue reading...

Introduction Young people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are significantly more likely to experience mental health problems than their cisgender, heterosexual peers. However, there is a dearth of evidence...

Purpose Sleep (SL), physical activity (PA), and wellbeing (WB) are three factors linked to positive development in adolescence. Despite theoretical support and some empirical evidence of developmental...

Current understanding of the longitudinal relationships between different aspects of peer relationships and mental health problems in early- to mid-adolescence is limited. In particular, the role play...

By Arne Henningsen, Guy Low, David Wuepper, Tobias Dalhaus, Hugo Storm, Dagim Belay and Stefan Hirsch; Abstract: Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are of a causal nature, i...

We survey the weak instrumental variables (IV) literature with the aim of giving simple advice to applied researchers. This literature focuses heavily on the problem of size inflation in two-stage lea...