Body Image Alert Sample


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Alert results for: Body Image

Information between 18th February 2024 - 18th April 2024

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Parliamentary Debates
Pupil Mental Health, Well-being and Development
39 speeches (20,449 words)
Thursday 22nd February 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab - Life peer) This relates back to food, body image, appearance, bullying and how younger people relate to each other - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Tuesday 26th March 2024
Report - Fifth Report - The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in young people and other high risk groups

Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Coronavirus and the gendered economic impactHC 385 6th Changing the perfect picture: an inquiry into body

Wednesday 13th March 2024
Report - Fourth Report - Accessibility of products and services to disabled people

Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Coronavirus and the gendered economic impactHC 385 6th Changing the perfect picture: an inquiry into body

Tuesday 12th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Department for Education, Department for Education, and Department for Education

Screen Time: Impacts on education and wellbeing - Education Committee

Found: insecurity that can come for children and teenagers from the quest for likes and popularity, from body

Tuesday 12th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Ofcom, and Ofcom

Screen Time: Impacts on education and wellbeing - Education Committee

Found: insecurity that can come for children and teenagers from the quest for likes and popularity, from body

Tuesday 5th March 2024
Oral Evidence - 2024-03-05 10:00:00+00:00

Men's health - Health and Social Care Committee

Found: Varney: Over the last two to three decades we have seen significant social repositioning of men’s body

Tuesday 5th March 2024
Report - Third Report - Health barriers for girls and women in sport

Women and Equalities Committee

Found: She found that a range of body image concerns about PE kit, including sexualisation, fear of “masculinisation

Tuesday 5th March 2024
Report - Large Print - Health barriers for girls and women in sport

Women and Equalities Committee

Found: She found that a range of body image concerns about PE kit, including sexualisation, fear of “masculinisation

Thursday 29th February 2024
Report - Second Report - Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide

Health and Social Care Committee

Found: Government’s preferred candidate for the role of Patient Safety CommissionerHC 565 2nd The impact of body

Tuesday 20th February 2024
Oral Evidence - Office of the Children's Commissioner for England

Screen Time: Impacts on education and wellbeing - Education Committee

Found: This can range across content that harms children’s mental health, their body image and access to pornographic

Tuesday 20th February 2024
Oral Evidence - Barnardo’s, The UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC), and National Police Chiefs’ Council

Screen Time: Impacts on education and wellbeing - Education Committee

Found: This can range across content that harms children’s mental health, their body image and access to pornographic



Parliamentary Research
Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2024 - CDP-2024-0045
Feb. 27 2024

Found: Those with eating disorders may have negative perceptions of their body image, such as their weight



Petitions

Ban social media influencers from promoting/advertising cosmetic surgery

Petition Open - 822 Signatures

Sign this petition 10 Oct 2024
closes in 5 months, 1 week

I want the Government to make it illegal for social media influencers to promote or advertise cosmetic surgery. We believe this could help prevent often vulnerable individuals seeking plastic surgery, especially from cheap providers abroad.


Found: I was struggling with my body image and after being influenced by many influencers decided to pay for




Body Image mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Government Publications
Monday 18th March 2024
Mental Health Directorate
Source Page: Supporting development of a self-harm strategy for Scotland, what does the qualitative evidence tell us?
Document: Supporting development of a self-harm strategy for Scotland, what does the qualitative evidence tell us? (PDF)

Found: I just have this, sortie warped body image, and I don’t know if that’s, again, I don’t know if that’

Tuesday 12th March 2024
Learning Directorate
Source Page: Health and Wellbeing Census Scotland Data Quality and Limitations
Document: Health and Wellbeing Census 2021-22 Analysis of item non-response (webpage)

Found: Both body image variables are included in this item non-response banding, as are both variables on feeling

Wednesday 6th March 2024
Mental Health Directorate
Source Page: Scotland's Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan: Equality Impact Assessment
Document: Scotland’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan Equality Impact Assessment (PDF)

Found: A study by the Mental Health Foundation (2019) found 40% of teenagers worried about their body image



Scottish Parliamentary Debates
Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2024
9 speeches (34,012 words)
Tuesday 5th March 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Dunbar, Jackie (SNP - Aberdeen Donside) common.My eating disorder means that I’m scared of eating in case I’m ill and doesn’t relate at all to my body - Link to Speech