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...
News from I-HOP 16/1/18 Black and minority ethnic (BAME) groups continue to be over represented within the prison population. In 2017 over a quarter of prisoners were from a minority ethnic group (MoJ). The specific...
News from I-HOP 02/02/2018 A major piece of research describing the implications of maternal imprisonment on children has been published. Written by Dr Shona Minson, a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology...
The use of restraint, number of assaults, and levels of self-harm among young people in custody have all risen to a new high despite ongoing efforts to improve safety, it has emerged. Rates of restraint, self-harm and...
A study has blamed a lack of professional understanding and prejudice within child protection services for the massive spike in the numbers of Roma and Traveller children being taken into care. There has been a 720 per...
The community surrounding Widden Primary School in Gloucester, England, has thrown open its doors in a wider welcome to refugee children and their families. The school is one of many which have joined in the “Cities of...
It’s hard to believe but today marks 100 years since women over 30 got the vote in the UK. It wouldn’t be for another 10 years, in 1928, when all women received the vote on the same terms as men. While we know about the...
A council has warned that it will not be able to fund preventative services for adults’ and children’s social care by 2021/22 without more resources from the government. In East Sussex’s budget proposals, submitted to...
Government plans to improve employment advice will fail to offer help to the most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people, careers guidance experts have warned. The Career Development Institute (CDI), which...
Late on Wednesday evening, a charter flight took off, under cover of darkness, from an unknown location in the south of England, heading for Nigeria and Ghana. This did not make the news, but it transformed the lives of...
The team arrives at a permitted food distribution point. Already, in the rain and freezing cold a silent, wretched line of hungry people is forming. Large containers of hot food are quickly unloaded onto trestle tables...
