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...
Children eligible for free school meals (FSM) who live near a Sure Start centre saw increased performance at GCSE by three grades, six times higher than children not eligible for FSM, new research has found...
A landmark healthcare review has called on the NHS to ensure gender identity services for young people match the standards of its other forms of care and support. Read the full article on this link to Children &...
Vulnerable pupils, including those with mental health problems, are at an increased risk of experiencing “an unexplained transfer” from their school, research has found. Read the full article on this link...
Only 22% of children feel that their concerns are being listened to by politicians with just 10% feeling their views are important to those running the country, a survey by the Children’s Commissioner for England has...
Number of severely absent children was 150% higher last year than pre-Covid, with one in 50 children missing at least half of lessons.
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The government is being called on to make it a requirement for all schools to appoint a young carers lead to better coordinate their support. The recommendation is being made by the Carers Trust as it looks to introduce...
Pupils with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) are among the most likely to be suspended by schools multiple times, researchers have found. Those suspended 10 times or more are almost three times as likely...
Children who are suspended from school in England even for short periods see their GCSE results suffer, according to research that highlights the need for early interventions to reduce suspensions. Pupils who had been...
Foundations has published an evaluation of My View, a specialist therapeutic intervention for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) aged 12–17-years-old who are in the UK without their parents or guardians...
A new resource for early years providers has been produced to help staff support children with a parent or close relative in prison. The pack has been produced by the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) alongside...
