Reports

Reports can provide:

• Up to date information - they are usually published to a specific deadline or as a reaction to an event
• Current views and opinions
• Recommendations about future practice
• Technical information, statistics or data that you would not find in books or journal articles

However, there are some disadvantages:

• Reports can quickly become out of date as they reflect the current situation at a given time
• Not all reports are published so they can be difficult to locate

Examples of reports

• Covid-19 mental health and wellbeing surveillance report
• Projections of older people with dementia and costs of dementia care in the United Kingdom, 2019-2040
• The Department for Education's progress on our commitments in the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter

Reports published by government agencies, charitable foundations or research institutions can usually be accessed from their websites. 

Use Google's advanced search features to find them, including:

• the site command, to search within a specific organisation's website
• the filetype command, to filter by PDF (the format in which most reports are made available)

Example

In Google, search for "mental health" report site:.gov.uk filetype:pdf

This should filter your results to show primarily PDFs of UK government reports on the topic of mental health.

Physical reports can be located in many of the university libraries. Details can be found by searching NUsearch (UK / China / Malaysia) 

Reports may be shelved: 

• with the normal bookstock - they can be found by the classmark shown on NUsearch
• in a separate section within the library

For example,  Hallward Library  (UK Campus) houses a documents division, which includes official publications published within the UK and around the world.