Balmer, NJ; Tam, T; Pleasence, P; (2007) Young People and Civil Justice: Findings from the 2004 English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey. Youth Access: London, UK.

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This summary report presents findings from the 2004 English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey (CSJS); a survey of people’s experience of and response to 18 broad types of civil law problem. In particular, it sets out the experience of the youngest respondents: those between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. Broader findings from the survey can be found elsewhere. The 2004 survey involved 5,015 interviews, of which 525 (11 per cent) were with respondents between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. The survey examined problems that were ‘difficult to solve’ and occurred within a 3½ year period. Some of the reported problems will have been experienced when respondents were as young as 14 years old. As well as describing the experience of 18 to 24 year old respondents, this report also examines the role of social isolation on problem experience, by looking separately at the experience of those young respondents living apart from their parents or any other adult over the age of 24. In all, 72 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds had an adult over the age of 25 living in the same household. While the CSJS is a ‘representative’ survey, like other major surveys it includes only people living in residential households. This has the effect of excluding many of the most vulnerable people within society, such as those living temporarily in hotels and hostels and those who sleep rough. A 2001 survey of people living in temporary accommodation highlighted the particular vulnerability to the experience of civil law problems of people living in temporary accommodation. Further research into the experience of hard-to-reach groups would be valuable.

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