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In the Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) region under 16 year olds who are outside of mainstream education settings include young people in Alternative Education (AE) settings, Teen Pregnancy Units, residences (CYPS, Justice, community agencies); correspondence school, those who have exemption from school and those who are not enrolled and truant1. This report is provided to the District Health Board by the Centre for Youth Health (CfYH) to outline health needs and service provision opportunities for young people outside mainstream education in the CMDHB area. There is a particular focus on young people in AE as a group where there are current opportunities to intervene and current health information is available. Current health needs Young people outside mainstream education settings typically have higher rates of current and future health issues than young people in school. A range of these needs are significant, restrict life options and involve significant social and economic cost. Young people in New Zealand AEs have higher rates of risk than mainstream high school students on almost every health behaviour measured.