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...
Tens of thousands of families are trapped in temporary accommodation despite “working every hour they can”, says housing charity Shelter. Its analysis of official data suggests 33,000 families living in...
Around one in six of all children in England – a total of 2.1 million – are at “serious risk” due to complex family problems, with the majority of them “invisible” to the state and...
4 July 2018 This year’s 2018 vulnerability report tells us about the numbers of children who are growing up in England with vulnerability and risks that could affect their lives, wellbeing and life chances. Access this...
Older children who are suffering neglect are going “unseen” by services that should be supporting them, inspectors have warned. Neglected older children are more likely to go missing from home, get drawn...
This report is part of the NSPCC’s Impact and Evidence series, which presents the findings of the Society’s research into its services and interventions. Many of the reports are produced by the NSPCC’s Evaluation...
Education and youth ‘think-and-action’ tank LKMco and school mental health organisation Minds Ahead have published a report looking at the role of schools in addressing children and young people’s mental health care...
Women and children fleeing domestic abuse are being forced to sleep rough or “sofa surf” due to a lack of support from councils, research has found. A report by Women’s Aid, analysing the experiences of 264 women...
Initiatives to tackle loneliness among young people will be central to a forthcoming strategy on the issue, the government has said. A study by Action for Children last year found that 39 per cent of children had felt...
Migrant children who are criminally exploited may not be easily recognised as victims by frontline services in the UK. These children may be afraid to talk about their experiences or present challenging behaviour, and...
The Department for Education (DfE) has released its third wave of research into the prevalence and nature of bullying through its Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LYSPE2). Based on interviews with 10,010...
