NHS ombudsman warns of years-long waits and patients paying thousands to go private as demand for services soars
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The Centre for Young Lives has published its annual State of the Nation report, collating data and indicators to track trends in poverty, mental health, education, safeguarding, housing, special educational...
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Kinship Care has published a new report on the experiences of children who have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who are raised by kinship carers...
The number of children with autism being excluded has risen dramatically in recent years, government data has shown, with campaigners claiming they are being “shut out” of schools. Department for Education statistics...
The Children’s Society and Barnardo’s have published a study that explores how factors at age 10 and 11 can affect children’s mental health at age 14 and 15. Data was analysed from the UK Household Longitudinal Study...
The number of children being refused formal special educational needs (SEN) support following an assessment has more than tripled since ambitious government reforms came into effect in 2014, it has emerged. More than...
The NSPCC has released figures from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to NHS Trusts in England looking at the number of referrals by schools seeking mental health treatment for pupils between 2014/15 and 2017/18...
This study adds to the literature as a longitudinal analysis showing that loneliness exacerbates poor mental health over time. This also adds to the literature for students specifically, and suggests a possible bi...
Nearly a third of children being referred to specialist mental health services by their schools are being denied treatment, an investigation has found. The number of children being referred to specialist mental health...
Tens of thousands of “fitness for work” benefit claims could have been decided by civil servants on evidence from assessment reports that should have been rejected because their quality was “unacceptable”, government...
One in three millennials will never own their own home, and renters can be evicted with just two months’ notice. What effect is this instability having on young people’s wellbeing? Read the full article on this link...
Funding for pupils with complex needs is insufficient to meet a dramatic rise in the number of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), head teachers have warned. The government currently pays £5...
Many people suffer a lack of dignity when they are detained under the Mental Health Act, an independent review has found. The review was set up to look at the rise in the number of people being detained, issues around...
