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 Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) has published a report on the experiences of homeless children housed in Bed & Breakfasts (B&B) and Temporary Accommodation (TA) in England. The report claims...
At least 40 children have been held in solitary confinement in young offenders institutions in the past year, the Victoria Derbyshire show has been told. The UN defines solitary confinement as being held for 22 hours a...
Community Care survey finds a majority of social workers doing their first year in employment often had less than three hours of supervision a month. Almost half of social workers on their assessed and supported year in...
The NSPCC has published a report summarising information from our helplines on the experiences of children and young people whose parents or carers are affected by domestic abuse, substance misuse and mental health...
Health workers are reluctant to routinely ask young people who access their services if they have been affected by adverse childhood experiences such as abuse or exploitation, a pilot study has found. The pilot involved...
Around 10,000 children and young people across the UK will take part in a major study to investigate whether being a victim of child abuse can lead to mental health problems, such as psychopathic traits. Young people...
The Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) has published a report looking at the impacts of the benefit system on young people aged 16 to 24 who live independently of parents or other guardians in England, Scotland...
The Child Trafficking Advice Centre [CTAC] has published a report looking at the experiences of children forced into migration through northern France into the UK. Findings from a study of case files from 196 referrals...
The BBC reports that Goldsmiths University has published findings from research looking at the issues that arise for social workers around discovering and confronting parental neglect in affluent families. Findings from...
The BMJ has published findings from research carried out by the universities of Bristol, Queen Mary and Cambridge in the UK and McMaster and Western in Canada looking at evidence on the best ways to identify and respond...
