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 is being urged by MPs to amend its Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ensure all eligible children are automatically enrolled for free school meals. This would remove the current requirement for low...
About one in four children are deemed to be in need during their childhoods, finds new research. With the rate likely to be higher in deprived areas, this illustrates the need to tackle the root causes, argue its...
Campaigners are urging the government to take urgent action to tackle the “stark” overrepresentation of young people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in the criminal justice system, after research...
Campaigners are urging the government to take urgent action to tackle the “stark” overrepresentation of young people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in the criminal justice system, after research...
Centrepoint has published a new report into the scale of youth homelessness across the UK. The report sets out data collected by local authorities in 2023-2024 on 16-24 year olds in England. Information from devolved...
School attendance rates are being affected by parents working from home after the pandemic, the head of Ofsted has said. The chief inspector of the schools watchdog in England, Martyn Oliver, told the Sunday Times that...
A “staggering” 12% rise in youth homeless has been recorded in England – with analysis suggesting that councils are unable to assess a third of cases due to the pressures. Read the full article on this link to Children...
The toolkit, developed by the Creative Therapy Service at children’s charity Coram, in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions, provides practical resources such as session guides and activities. These...
Findings from the survey of 3,000 parents has been revealed by the Children’s Society to coincide with Children’s Mental Health Week (3-9 February). Problems facing parents accessing support is “leaving thousands of...
Charities providing specialist care to thousands of vulnerable adults with learning disabilities and severe autism are having to “evict” residents to avoid insolvency because of tax and wage rises and local authority...
