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 Department for Education (DfE) has published research looking at evidence for transgender awareness in child and family social work in England. Findings from a rapid evidence review of literature; a content analysis...
Nadine Kaadan has been writing and drawing stories since she was eight years old. Now more than 20 years later, and with more than a dozen children’s books in Arabic to her name, the Syrian author has just had her first...
Poor understanding of childhood gender dysphoria among social workers and a lack of specialist training on the issues has resulted in transgender children and their families suffering discrimination within the child...
Children’s social workers are more likely to burn out than their adult services counterparts, as a result of feeling disengaged from and drained by their work, an academic study has found. The analysis, based on two...
A group of academics, campaigners and the British Association of Social Workers has called on the government to halt the procurement process for a £50 million contract that would train up to 900 social workers through...
Applying qualitative data from a 30‐year‐long follow‐up study, this article examines how 30 parents with troubled upbringings talk about and present their children through stories about parenthood. Two overall themes...
This study adds to the literature as a longitudinal analysis showing that loneliness exacerbates poor mental health over time. This also adds to the literature for students specifically, and suggests a possible bi...
Nearly a third of children being referred to specialist mental health services by their schools are being denied treatment, an investigation has found. The number of children being referred to specialist mental health...
One in three millennials will never own their own home, and renters can be evicted with just two months’ notice. What effect is this instability having on young people’s wellbeing? Read the full article on this link...
Families who fled war in Syria are being wrongly sanctioned by jobcentres for attending English-language courses, the chief inspector of borders and immigration has said in a report critical of the Home Office. David...
