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...
The EU has unveiled its first-ever housing strategy, but is it enough to see off the far right and rescue a generation shut out of affordable living?
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The government has published its response to the independent review into placements and care for girls in custody in England and Wales published earlier this year in March. The response was developed in collaboration...
Latest data shows there was an alarming rise in the number of children and young people referred to the government’s Prevent programme due to concerns they were susceptible to radicalisation. Read the full article on...
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
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Lord John Bird submitted an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill calling for the government to set legally binding targets to reduce child poverty. But Labour rejected the plan, insisting that targets...
Domestic abuse victims and pregnant women are among hundreds of homeless young people being unlawfully denied help by councils across England, according to research by the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. Between...
The figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government show there were 172,420 children living in temporary accommodation in June 2025, up 8% on levels a year earlier. With one in every 30 children...
The APLE Collective believe in lasting change which takes root when those with lived experience of poverty lead the conversation. That’s why they’ve created Taking Voice Seriously– a toolkit designed to help...
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry team has published a report looking at how the coronavirus pandemic impacted children and young people. The Inquiry heard from 600 9- to 22-year-olds about their experiences of living through the...
More children than ever are struggling in school. Last year alone, 34 million days of learning were lost to absence and suspension, a dramatic increase from 19 million pre-pandemic. Read the full article on this link to...
