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 Coram Institute for Children has published a report on local authority support for homeless 16- to 17-year-olds in England. The report is based on interviews with children, legal staff and an analysis of case...
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has published the next two reports as part of its annual Children, violence and vulnerability research. The YEF surveyed over 10,000 13- to 17-year-olds in England and Wales about their...
A strengthened national approach for preparing children and young people with SEND for adulthood and better cross-agency working are key recommendations following a joint inspection of six local area partnerships...
NSPCC and UNICEF UK’s report: ‘Opening Doors: Access to early childhood services for families impacted by poverty in the UK‘, finds that “families experiencing poverty face barriers to accessing early...
The government is investing £740m on increasing the number of places for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in mainstream schools. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young...
The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a report detailing the experiences of children with complex needs who have been deprived of their liberty. Interviews were carried out with 15 children with...
Health campaigners have called for a phased approach to providing universal free school meals across the country, following a positive evaluation of the programme in London’s state primary schools. The £130m Greater...
Homelessness among refugees has doubled in the last year to reach record levels as charities hand out tents and sleeping bags to those forced to live on the streets for the first time, according to research. Read the...
The number of children in the care of local authorities has declined for the first time in 16 years, government figures show.
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A shocking 300 people are dying in poverty every single day in the UK, new research reveals. End of life charity, Marie Curie, previously found that 93,000 people died in poverty across the UK in 2019. But that number...
