What future choices options are young people interested in ?
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For those with a diagnosed mental health condition there were similar drops . Interest in university fell by 9 %, 56 % to 47 %. And interest in attending sixth form fell by 10 % from 50 % to 40 %. We think these drops might be because young people have been struggling with their mental health over lockdown and they are apprehensive to take on more stress and other pressures associated with further and higher education . The number of these young people answering unsure also rose from 5 % to 16 %.
Young people who are a part of the LGBTQ + community were more likely to want to go to university than their straight peers , 68 % compared to 59 % prelockdown . On the whole these young people were slightly less likely to change their minds about their future choices because of the lockdown . Interest in university fell by 5 %, sixth form by 2 % and the other options remained the same .
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