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...
Enveloped in an oversized puffer jacket and cap, the 14-year-old boy in front of me looks anything but tough. True, he has made the perilous journey from the conflict in his country, travelling alone across the...
We often hear about “foodbank users” in the news – thousands of mothers, fathers, sons and daughters bundled together into one hasty group, where they are all the more easy to shame, blame or quietly ignore. But the...
Government plans to improve mental health support for young people represent a missed opportunity because they fail to acknowledge that many problems they face are the result of public spending cuts, a group...
Good Samaritans bought 19 rooms at Weston Premier Inn then donated them to freezing rough sleepers, only for the hotel to turn the homeless people away
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Charities have expressed concern about an “open season” on homeless people following tough language by police and political figures and vigilante threats to “fake homeless”. Those working on the frontline suggested that...
Last week, 120 detainees at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre began an indefinite hunger strike in protest at the conditions of their detention. The following day, on the BBC’s Question Time, I challenged the...
People convicted of domestic abuse offences in England and Wales will be more likely to go to prison in future, under new sentencing guidelines. For the first time, the guidance will say domestic offences should be...
The average number of cases children’s social workers deal with at any one time has risen to nearly 18, government statistics suggest. Annual workforce statistics produced by the Department for Education show that...
More than a third of child deaths and serious injuries through neglect are linked to parental drinking, a report commissioned by MPs and peers has found. More than a third of serious injuries or deaths as a result of...
The number of approved mental health professionals, the practitioners authorised to carry out Mental Health Act assessments, continues to shrink, research by Community Care shows. A Freedom of Information request to...
