At a time when the whole world is talking about children and young people’s use of social media, we have carried out 6 workshops in Essex, Hertfordshire, and London schools with 104 pupils in Years 6 – 10 (age 10 – 15). We wanted to understand pupils’ views on potential restrictions, how they spend their time online and what they would like their online world to look like. We are now about to launch the…
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Green Alliance launched its new report Work in Progress: Getting Young People Ready for Jobs in the 2030s at the Houses of Parliament on 20 May 2026. FK&Y was pleased to carry out the research, exploring young people’s attitude to jobs in the green sector. The research included in-school workshops with Year 11 and Year 12 pupils, 4 online focus groups with young people aged 15-21 – including those at university, on vocational schemes and apprenticeships and NEET. This was followed by in-depth…
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We have been working very closely with amazing children’s charity Words Matter since 2023. Our latest research in February 2026 was a nationally representative sample of 1000 11-17 year olds, as well as 500 secondary school teachers to explore the relationships between students and teachers, the types of things being said to young people, and how language makes young people feel. It found that two in five children in the UK experience verbal abuse from…
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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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