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 government has been urged to ‘stand firmly behind the LGBT+ community’ in the wake of the landmark ruling
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Secondary schools are so desperate for funding that 45% have used pupil premium to plug budget holes in 2025 – up from 32% in 2024, according to the Teacher Voice Omnibus Survey, conducted by the National Foundation for...
Children in young offender institutions (YOI) in England are typically being kept in their cells for about 20 hours a day and receiving less than 15 hours of education per week, figures obtained by the Howard League for...
Council spending on early intervention services has fallen by more than £2bn over 15 years, a drop of 42%, analysis shows. The Children’s Charity Coalition is calling on the government to “turbocharge long-term...
Over three million families will lose an average of £1,720 per year in real terms by 2029-30, as a result of proposed changes to disability and incapacity benefits, the government has estimated. This includes 370,000...
Chief social worker Isabelle Trowler says action needed to tackle drop-off in representation of staff from minority groups at senior level in children’s services, whose staffing remains ‘very white’...
There is a risk that disadvantaged children may not be benefitting from billions of pounds of Department for Education funding given to schools to narrow the attainment gap, an influential group of MPs have said. In a...
The government has permanently barred the use of young offender institutions (YOI) to detain girls sentenced to custody.
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Ofsted has published a new report on local authority support for homeless children aged 16 and 17-years-old in England. The report sets out evidence from inspections of local authority children’s services, focus groups...
The government should fund the creation of a network of Scandinavian-style specialist support centres for children who have been sexually abused or exploited, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Speaking...
