We welcome the involvement of parents as partners in the education of their children and the co-operation and support of the wider community in delivering a quality teaching and learning experience for all.
We welcome the involvement of parents as partners in the education of their children and the co-operation and support of the wider community in delivering a quality teaching and learning experience for all.
There is a webinar coming up next Monday the 19th January at 19:00 that may be of interest to some parents called Supporting Neurodivergent Teens Experiencing Social Exclusion. Register here. Questions on the topic can be submitted in advance to [email protected].
Planet Youth is a statutory-funded project and all resources are free of charge.
Social Exclusion
38% of our teenagers reported the experience of being rejected by their friends. This is at 45% for girls and 28% for boys, and the teenagers that reported this experience show significantly different correlations across all mental wellbeing indicators. They also show higher rates of absenteeism from school, and increased rates for substance use behaviours.
Bí Cineálta are the new national procedures to prevent and address bullying behaviour for primary and post-primary schools, and are most welcome. Social exclusion is a problem that extends far beyond the ability of schools to address fully however, and is part of the reason the Social Exclusion webinar has been organised.
