Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

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...

June 24, 2026

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Award-winning early support for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families

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...

June 17, 2026

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The Global Justice Report: A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary

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...

June 10, 2026

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Windrush scandal shows what happens when anti-immigrant hysteria takes over

The treatment of the Windrush kids is one of those rare moments when there is a broad political consensus on defending immigrants. This happens once every few years – the last memorable occasions were Joanna Lumley’s...

April 19, 2018

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Serious violence strategy: Youth projects to get £11m

A new £11m Early Intervention Youth Fund will be established to support community projects that help steer young people away from violence, as part of the government’s serious violence strategy, it has been announced...

April 19, 2018

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Youth homelessness rise linked to welfare reforms, report finds

Government welfare reforms, including the introduction of Universal Credit and the capping of housing benefit, are contributing to a rise in youth homelessness, a report has concluded. More than half of homelessness...

April 17, 2018

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Four out of five social workers think their caseload isn’t manageable

A survey of children’s social workers revealed an average caseload different to the government’s estimates. Less than one in five children’s social workers think their current workload is manageable, a Community Care...

April 11, 2018

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Unaccompanied asylum seeking children

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has published a report looking at the Home Office’s handling of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and how it ensured the best interest of the child were...

April 9, 2018

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Resources about young people who have sexually harmed others

In a wider context of a significant decrease in youth crime in the UK, figures for crimes of a sexual nature by those aged 10-17 have stayed fairly constant at around 2000 per year in England and Wales. This may be due...

April 4, 2018

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Vulnerable teenagers

The Children’s Society has published a report looking at why 16 and 17 year-olds, referred to children’s services and assessed as being a child in need or who become subject to child protection plan, need more support...

March 27, 2018

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Children in north ‘being left behind’, children’s commissioner warns

Government efforts to boost the economy in the north of England should include action to stop children and young people being left behind their peers across the rest of the country, the children’s commissioner for...

March 27, 2018

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You Just Have to Work with What You’ve Got’ Practitioner Research with Precarious Migrant Families

22 March 2018 Undocumented migrant families experience high levels of food poverty, exclusion from mainstream benefits, and sometimes from social work services. This is an under-researched area for social work in the...

March 22, 2018

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How many Telfords before we get serious about child grooming? by Jess Phillips MP

Sexual exploitation scandals are not going away. We must reach vulnerable children before the grooming gangs do Some time ago I was sitting in the Sunday school room of a local church, with posters made by kids...

March 16, 2018

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

Award-winning early support for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families

The Global Justice Report: A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary

Category - Marginalised & Excluded

Windrush scandal shows what happens when anti-immigrant hysteria takes over

Serious violence strategy: Youth projects to get £11m

Youth homelessness rise linked to welfare reforms, report finds

Four out of five social workers think their caseload isn’t manageable

Unaccompanied asylum seeking children

Resources about young people who have sexually harmed others

Vulnerable teenagers

Children in north ‘being left behind’, children’s commissioner warns

You Just Have to Work with What You’ve Got’ Practitioner Research with Precarious Migrant Families

How many Telfords before we get serious about child grooming? by Jess Phillips MP

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