More than 40 per cent of childcare workers are claiming benefits or tax credits as a result of being poorly paid – a higher proportion than less-qualified hairdressers and beauticians. More than 40 per...
NICE is consulting on a draft guideline for social workers, health professionals, practitioners and others working with children and young people who are disabled or have severe complex needs. This will...
The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) has published an interim report describing the activity of the Safeguarding early adopters programme. NCB is working with 17 Early Adopter (EA) projects to put in place new...
Government progress on supporting the educational needs of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) children has remained “flat” over the past five years, the children’s minister has admitted. Speaking to a cross-party group of MPs...
The Department for Education could face legal action for publishing guidance that might lead local authorities to break laws protecting vulnerable children, a charity has claimed. Children’s rights charity Article 39, claims that Department...
Spending on Sure Start children’s centres and services for under fives plummeted by £110m last year, according to latest government data. Section 251 outturn data for 2017/18 shows local government expenditure on services for young people were...
You may be scratching your head and wondering why on earth I should ask such an obvious question. There are lots of books out there, many of them unwanted, they could find a new home with a new reader so why not donate them to a charity who can...
I’ve stood up to bullies all of my life. I did when I was at school myself and have done this throughout my career. Bullying is a terrible scourge that has a long-lasting and devastating impact upon those who find themselves to be the unwelcome...
Have you noticed the remarkable increase in charity appeals for a whole range of ‘good causes’ – medical, social and environmental? It would be hard to miss them I guess given that the BBC seems to have become the State collection box for a good...
This is a story that’s full of very difficult issues – issues that need to be handled with care and skill – but don’t, for a minute, let that put you off. In the hands of an experienced and outstanding young adult novelist like Bali Rai it doesn’t...
One of the drawbacks to having a job in academia – especially in a subject like sociology – is that the books you tend to read or recommend to students aren’t necessarily the most visually beautiful or pictorially stimulating. In fact, you...
One of the outstanding features of politics in the UK during the last decade has been the near disappearance of trade unionism as a presence in contemporary debates about where Britain is heading in terms of national and international policies...
More than 40 per cent of childcare workers are claiming benefits or tax credits as a result of being poorly paid – a higher proportion than less-qualified hairdressers and beauticians. More than 40 per cent of childcare workers claim in-work...
NICE is consulting on a draft guideline for social workers, health professionals, practitioners and others working with children and young people who are disabled or have severe complex needs. This will also be used to develop the NICE...
More than 40 per cent of childcare workers are claiming benefits or tax credits as a result of being poorly paid – a higher proportion than less-qualified hairdressers and beauticians. More than 40 per cent of childcare workers claim in-work...
