Faith-based groups and places of worship play a major role in the lives of many children and young people. This means safeguarding must be a key consideration in all faith settings. Access this document: Safeguarding in faith communities Author:...
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Safeguarding in faith communities
Faith-based groups and places of worship play a major role in the lives of many children and young people. This means safeguarding must be a key consideration in all faith settings. Access this document: Safeguarding in faith communities Author:...
Gillick competency and Fraser guidelines Balancing children’s rights with the responsibility to keep them safe from harm
When practitioners are trying to decide whether a child is mature enough to make decisions, they often talk about whether the child is ‘Gillick competent’ or whether they meet the ‘Fraser guidelines’. The Gillick competency...
Criminal records system ‘anchoring children to their past’
The current criminal records system is preventing children from moving on from their mistakes and should be changed, a Conservative MP has warned. Theresa Villiers has called for reform of the criminal records system for childhood offences. ...
Bans on smacking children linked to lower violence among teens, study suggests
Bans on smacking children are linked to less violence among teenagers, according to a new review. Using physical force to correct or control a child’s behaviour remains legally and socially permitted in many countries. But corporal punishment has...
School opens its own foodbank over Universal Credit hunger fears
A school in Middlesbrough has revealed that is launching its own “pop-up foodbank”, over fears that the introduction of Universal Credit in the region will leave children hungry as parents are made to wait several weeks for an initial...
Divided Britain: study finds huge chasm in attitudes
Britain is hugely divided across cultural, age and education lines, a major study of national attitudes has concluded, warning of a potential rise in far-right and anti-Islam sentiments unless politicians tackle long-standing disaffections behind...
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Safeguarding in faith communities
Faith-based groups and places of worship play a major role in the lives of many children and young people. This means safeguarding must be a key consideration in all faith settings. Access this document: Safeguarding in faith communities Author:...
Gillick competency and Fraser guidelines Balancing children’s rights with the responsibility to keep them safe from harm
When practitioners are trying to decide whether a child is mature enough to make decisions, they often talk about whether the child is ‘Gillick competent’ or whether they meet the ‘Fraser guidelines’. The Gillick competency...
Criminal records system ‘anchoring children to their past’
The current criminal records system is preventing children from moving on from their mistakes and should be changed, a Conservative MP has warned. Theresa Villiers has called for reform of the criminal records system for childhood offences. ...
Bans on smacking children linked to lower violence among teens, study suggests
Bans on smacking children are linked to less violence among teenagers, according to a new review. Using physical force to correct or control a child’s behaviour remains legally and socially permitted in many countries. But corporal punishment has...
School opens its own foodbank over Universal Credit hunger fears
A school in Middlesbrough has revealed that is launching its own “pop-up foodbank”, over fears that the introduction of Universal Credit in the region will leave children hungry as parents are made to wait several weeks for an initial...
Divided Britain: study finds huge chasm in attitudes
Britain is hugely divided across cultural, age and education lines, a major study of national attitudes has concluded, warning of a potential rise in far-right and anti-Islam sentiments unless politicians tackle long-standing disaffections behind...
National child death database to launch next year
A new national database recording all child deaths is to launch in April next year in a bid to improve information sharing which will help prevent future deaths, the government has announced. The launch of a national child death database is part of...
Britain fell for a neoliberal con trick – even the IMF says so
The fund reports that Britain’s finances are weaker than all other nations except Portugal, and says privatisation is to blame. Let’s start with the IMF itself. Last week it published a report that barely got a mention from the BBC or in...
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