A new beginning or the end of the old order?

This commentary explores the Government's apprenticeship reform programme

A multi-method study identifying the barriers and solutions to meeting the physical and psychological health needs of young people involved in or vulnerable to sexual exploitation

Awareness of sexual exploitation has increased over the past decade. However, physical and psychological health needs, risks, health seeking behaviour and use of health services by sexually exploited young people have been inadequately explored. Methodology/method Phase 1: descriptive, phenomenological, approach to encourage young people involved in or vulnerable to sexual exploitation to describe their personal accounts of health, risks, health seeking and support. Phase 2: quantitative methodology consisting of a questionnaire survey with professionals supporting young people involved in or vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Data analysis Phase 1: phenomenological approach to data analysis (Giorgi, 1985). Phase 2: questionnaire data were analysed using software S.P.S.S. and thematic content analysis (Burnard, 2006). Results/findings Intentional self harm and substance misuse were concordant themes from phase 1 and 2. Novel themes that emerged from this study included a taxonomy of risk behaviours related to health, and the use of youth offending teams for health support Conclusion A significant range of physical and psychological health problems were reported alongside risks to health and barriers to health support for sexually exploited young people. Psycho-social vulnerability factors undermine health and impact on health seeking behaviour.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceUniversity of BradfordGBUnited Kingdo

Co-designing and piloting an Integrated Digital Literacy and Language Toolkit for vulnerable migrant students in higher education

This paper presents the process of co-design, co-production, piloting, evaluation and revision of an Integrated Digital Literacy and Language Toolkit for Vulnerable Migrant Students (VMs) in Higher Education (HE). The language element focuses on academic language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking required for efective involvement in both the host society and HE learning; the acquisition and improvement of digital literacy skills enable VMs to successfully participate in, and contribute to, university and societal collaboration, creativity and content curation. The Toolkit resulted from the co -operation and collaboration of fve EU universities and was based on the ASSURE instructional design model. The Toolkit ofers a selfaccess, self- paced, non-linear, fully online set of ten stand-alone units which ofer a range of materials and activities to develop those skills pertinent to VM academic language and digital literacy needs. Evaluation by a group of VMs resident in EU countries highlight the positive impact of the Toolkit and validates the instrument as ft for purpose. Noteworthy aspects include its usefulness in supporting student autonomy, improving digital capabilities and academic language mastery,a positive experience of a fexible learning experience along with access to open resources of international scope and dissemination under the Creative Commons licence.Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer NatureEAC/A05/2017: ERASMUS+ KA2KA203 Strategic Partnerships for higher education2.917 JCR (2020) Q2, 85/265 Education & Educational Research1.055 SJR (2021) Q1, 181/1381 EducationNo data IDR 2020UE