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...
Cambridge research finds socioenvironmental stressors may influence body’s ability to function healthily in pregnancy
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Social workers in England say they often have no choice but to place children in unregistered settings because no one else will take them.
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The Da’aro Youth Project has published a report on the deaths of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in the care of or supported by local authorities in the UK. The data shows that between 2015 and 2024, at least...
Record number of applications for deprivation of liberty orders (DoL) highlights continued shortages of secure accommodation say experts, who are calling for a more coordinated approach to finding placements. Read the...
A decade ago, independent UK media agency The7Stars set up a The7Stars Foundation grants programme to support disadvantaged young people aged 18 and under across the UK. The grants assist young people facing a wide...
The government may have backed away from plans to scrap some legal rights for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), but concerns remain over the impact of its reforms to the system, says Anita...
Chair of UK government review says dramatic changes in labour market risks putting ‘a generation on the scrapheap’
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The Sensory Lives project at King’s College London has published a report presenting key findings from a UK-wide call for evidence focused on families living in temporary accommodation with neurodivergent children...
NHS clinicians will sit in on appointments in pilot scheme in four areas aimed at reducing reoffending
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The “demonisation” of migrants can hurt UK citizens and make their lives “very, very difficult”, the new chair of Britain’s equalities watchdog has warned.
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