Mission Statement and Values
In our work, we aim to provide services that promote objective debate in communities about the best ways to serve and educate, principally young people, about health and social issues, and to foster co-operation between professionals in education and health, and between adults and young people.
We are committed to working in a way that is:
- Collaborative
- Non discriminatory and inclusive
- Involves children and young people
- Respects privacy and confidentiality
- Flexible and responsive
This service is adaptable and flexible to take account of your particular needs.
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SHEU · Research, Evaluation and Publishing Services Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office No. Z 291 7180 |
SHEU is an independent research and publishing organisation. Each year the Schools Health Education Unit supports surveys in hundreds of communities nation wide and compiles the results from these surveys in the series ‘Young People in…’. The survey services began in the late 1970s and have been very widely used, and from the data bases from 1983 onwards we are publishing data to allow examination of trends.
Our annual survey sample is ‘accidental’ and not deliberate and is therefore not a representative 'national sample' in a research sense. It is however very large, and within any one community is never less than 40% of the community and often greater than 70%. The aim is to provide robust data for the community in which the data are collected and used. With the large sample it comes as no surprise to discover that Unit’s annual data compilations usually match the outcomes of orthodox procedures for the collection of 'national data'.
