Ofsted have published statistics on inspections of local authority children’s services in England as at 31 March 2026. Key findings include: the overall quality of local authority children’s services in...
The Department for Education (DfE) has published the final report for the Family Voice Project in England. The project involved work with families to explore their experiences of accessing family support...
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 Children’s Commissioner for England has published part one of the Independent Family Review which explores children’s and families’ perspectives on family life, including the experiences of children living in care...
A pro-family government would need to embrace a sometimes messy, blurry but realistic concept of what it seeks to support.
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Half of schoolchildren who do not pass their maths and English GCSEs were already judged to be behind on their education at the age of five new research has found. A fifth of all students in England, or around 100,000...
MPs tackling crisis of 165,000 staff vacancies hear of managers dreading Aldi opening nearby ‘as I know I will lose staff’
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Hundreds of thousands of school-age children are living in temporary accommodation during the summer holidays due to family homelessness, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. Read the full article on this...
Nearly 40% of parents who are supposed to contribute towards the upkeep of their children through the government-run child maintenance system are failing to make any payments. Read the full article on this link to The...
More than 30% have no access to free menstrual products at school or college, despite government schemes.
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Children in the youth custody system are being “let down” by poor provision across all settings, the chief inspector of prisons has said.
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Making UK school buildings energy efficient and fit for the future is a win-win, according to a new report published today by the TUC
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Labour will aim to bring in a national care service in England with just as much ambition as the 1945 government that brought in the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said, launching a review of how it would work. In...
