Category - Marginalised & Excluded

Politicians have been accused of using racist rhetoric against Travellers to help push through sweeping bans against unauthorised encampments. In a range of documents and speeches, Travellers have been branded illiterate, violent and lawless by MPs...

The National Children’s Bureau, the Association of School and College Leaders and IPSEA, have published a guide to the legal and unlawful use of exclusions and other practices such as off-rolling. Schools, parents, and pupils alike will benefit from...

A children’s rights campaign is calling for an end to imprisonment of young offenders for punishment and as a deterrent, condemning the practice as “cruel and unproductive”. Campaigners are calling for a radical overhaul of youth...

A third of pupils subject to “unexplained exits” from school are in the social care system, according to the largest study of the trend published today. EPI chair David Laws said the level of unexplained moves is “disturbing”...

The home secretary, Sajid Javid, is under mounting pressure to head off an immigration scandal that MPs have warned could be “bigger than Windrush”. About 34,000 foreign students have had their visas cancelled or curtailed and more than 1,000 people...

The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has published a report on painful restraint and solitary confinement for children in England and Wales. The Committee heard evidence from children and parents of children who had been restrained or subject...

The 22nd of April is the first National Stephen Lawrence Day – a day commemorating the life of my son, Stephen Lawrence, who was killed in an unprovoked racist attack. Stephen’s story is both tragic and inspirational. But I wish for Stephen’s name...

  The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) has published a report about how to engage disadvantaged and vulnerable parents in parenting and parental conflict services. Findings, based on a rapid evidence review, include: interventions can lack...