The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium has published a report on the use of Facial age estimation (FAE) technology to assess the age of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK. The briefing...
Specialist outreach and inclusion programme – recognised at last year’s Children & Young People Now Awards – supports Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families to engage with education, health and wider...
The Global Justice Report attempts to set out a new vision for global progress in the 21st century: grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability. It explores the conditions under which...
Modern slavery gang masters beat workers “just for fun”, one victim has told the BBC. Tania was part of a crew of agricultural workers ferried across farms in England. She says they were paid 30p per day...
Children who are not classed as “school ready” by the time they start reception are more likely to be persistently absent in later years, research finds. Read the full article on this link to Children &...
Children who are classed as high achieving at the age of five, but from less affluent backgrounds, are less likely to achieve the highest grades at GCSE compared with their wealthier peers, new research has found. The...
Runnymede Trust has published a briefing which analyses Home Office data on police strip searches in England and Wales and discusses racialised harm caused by strip searches. Findings from the report include that Black...
Sir James Munby says measure reflects government’s ‘shocking moral failure’ to help those in England and Wales with complex needs.
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Levels of young people excluded from school increased in the last school year, with children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) disproportionately affected, latest Department for Education figures...
More than a third of teachers have said pupils in their classes are too hungry to learn, jumping to 63% in deprived areas, a new survey has found. A study of 10,000 teachers by School Food Matters and Teacher Tapp has...
Unemployed Britons will be pushed towards “skills bootcamps” to plug gaps in the labour market left by overseas workers, the work and pensions secretary has announced. Read the full article on this link...
Advice from a Community Care Inform guide on how social workers can positively engage with Gypsy and Traveller communities. Read more.
The number of people being made homeless jumped by 16% in the final three months of last year, according to the latest government figures, which laid bare the scale of the country’s housing crisis. Read the full story...
