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...
Stonewall has published guidance for secondary schools providing insight into the experiences of bisexual young people in schools and highlighting issues that bisexual people of all ages face. The guidance includes:...
Centrepoint has released data regarding the scale of homelessness amongst young people in the UK, summarising some of the findings from its new searchable Youth homelessness databank. An estimated 86,000 young people...
Barnardo’s has launched the National Information Centre on Children of Offenders (NICCO), which replaces i-HOP. The website provides resources, information on services, policy developments, events, training...
The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a report assessing the impact of over 350 mentoring programmes across England on the lives of vulnerable youth. Overall, the report suggests there is good evidence...
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has published the interim report from its research to date, including five public hearings, seven seminars and consulting with over 1,000 victims and survivors of...
Nearly six out of 10 young people facing homelessness who ask UK councils for help receive little or no support, a Centrepoint investigation has found. The youth homelessness charity’s claim is based on 217 Freedom of...
Children’s social workers are assessing more referrals that lead to no further action due to cuts to early prevention services and a lack of understanding around thresholds, experts say. More than a quarter of referrals...
Pupil referral units (PRU) are becoming so stretched that they are unable to help schools prevent permanent exclusions for their most challenging pupils, a senior Ofsted inspector has warned. Giving evidence to an...
The biggest network of food banks in the UK says it provided record levels of “emergency food supplies” last year. The annual figures from the Trussell Trust charity show a 13% increase, providing 1.3 million three-day...
Homeless Link has published a report exploring the trends, causes and nature of homelessness experienced by young people (aged 16-24) in England. Findings from a survey of 109 service providers and 79 local authorities...
