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...
About 200 women have taken part in a rally to highlight abuse and harassment they say they face on public transport. The group, many of them Muslims, gathered at Grey’s Monument in Newcastle city centre. Taj Khan...
Child health outcomes in England are set to get worse over the next 10 years unless a robust health strategy is implemented, a report has warned. A study published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health...
A newly qualified social worker writes about practice with migrant families and the vulnerabilities they face in the current system. During my time in both the voluntary sector and in statutory social work, I have...
Shrinking services are increasing stress levels and making social workers unwell, practitioners surveyed by a leading children’s charity have said. Of 295 children and families’ social workers who participated in the...
An initiative designed to support vulnerable child trafficking victims is set to be expanded, more than three and a half years after legislation to pave the way for it was passed, it has been announced. Home Office...
Researchers from the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex have published findings from a study into child homicides by stepfathers. The report found that both youth and living apart from the child were...
A minister for suicide prevention has been appointed in England by the prime minister as the government hosts the first ever global mental health summit. Theresa May said the appointment of Health Minister Jackie Doyle...
Children’s mental health services are struggling to cope with a rise in demand and are turning away as many as one in four young people referred for support, a report has found. A report by the Education Policy...
In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new...
Girlguiding UK has defended its policy of admitting transgender people after expelling two volunteers who publicly objected to the stance. Girlguiding UK changed its admissions policy in January 2017 to allow...
