Family Kids & Youth were delighted to present our annual ‘Wellbeing and the Internet’ research at the Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield 2024. The brilliant annual conference attracted 950 delegates this year, and FK&Y’s Barbie and Nyasha presented at Cinema 1 under the ‘Understanding Kids’ stream. Comparing back to pre-covid, 2019, we looked at our findings then with results from this year’s research, and the way 7-16 year olds across the UK incorporate the internet,…
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21st April 2024 – Family Kids & Youth carried out research on behalf of GambleAware July-November last year looking at the impact gambling has on children and young people considered to be vulnerable. We carried out 6 workshops in schools across the UK with 55 children and young people aged 11-17. Respondents included a mix of family income, gender and ethnicity, and included SEND and those with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). The…
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13th March 2024 – We have launched the 6th round of our Wellbeing and the Internet Study this week. Results May 2024. Fieldwork includes 8 online focus groups with boys and girls aged 10-11, 11-12, 13-14 and 15-16, plus 1,000 online interviews with 7-16 year olds across the UK. A syndicated study carried out since 2018, results include data from the last 5 years, edited films from groups and a presentation of results. Clients can…
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15th March 2024 – Ofcom has today published FK&Y’s report ‘Understanding Pathways to Online Violent Content Among Children’. Family Kids and Youth (FK&Y) was commissioned by Ofcom to conduct research to explore the pathways through which children encounter violent content online. The research consisted of 2 focus groups with professionals (including teachers, specialists who work with vulnerable children, and youth social workers), 15 in-school workshops with a total of 232 children aged 8 to 17…
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A new report has been published by the Department for Education (DfE) looking into learning and wellbeing of 16-19 year olds during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our team at Family Kids & Youth carried out the research at the end of last year. Using the ONS ‘Index of Multiple Deprivation’, paired interviews were carried out with 16-19 year olds in deprived areas in England (Middlesbrough, Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester). The research explored young people’s experience of…
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Barbie is delighted to be chairing the annual MRS Kids & Youth Research conference on 20th January which explores the changing motivations, behaviours and aspirations of young consumers. Barbie will be speaking with Mikkel Holme, Digital Product Director at LEGO  at 10.35am about how children have managed during lockdown. Find out more about the conference here. #MRSLive.

During this year’s Children’s Media Conference (CMC) FK&Y’s Dr Barbie Clarke, George Hanks and Nyasha Nyamhondoro presented FK&Y’s updated syndicated tracking study on children’s internet usage and wellbeing. The research looks at 7-16 year olds and includes 8 focus groups, together with 1,000 online interviews hosted by our panel partner Panelbase  across the UK. One year after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic this wave highlighted key changes to device and internet use, and the…
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Family Kids and Youth carried out its 3rd annual wave of ‘Wellbeing and the Internet’ study in Summer 2020. The study gives a fascinating insight into how 7-16 year olds in the UK coped with being separated from friends and family members, and with not being at school. The research looks at what children and young people are doing online, who they are speaking to and their wellbeing. The findings show that worries have reduced overall compared to last year;…
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Evidence shows that being read to aloud can prompt a greater love of reading and improve children’s emotional wellbeing, but that after the age of eight children are less likely to be read to by parents and teachers.  FK&Y worked closely with St Joseph’s Catholic Academy in Stoke-on-Trent for 6 months from September 2018 to February 2019 to explore the impact of reading aloud to children in-school for Egmont’s ‘Stories and Choices’ intervention. Egmont provided St Joseph’s with…
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FK&Y were delighted to present our Teens Talk Tech research for Ofcom on Friday about Y9s attitude to the internet. A big thank you to the pupils, teachers and schools who took part and to Ofcom and our team at FK&Y for enabling us to pull it together so quickly. Our FK&Y helplines list was shown in presentation and we have been sending it to our schools and clients to distribute to families during lockdown.