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 Children’s Commissioner for England has published a new report on child in need plans, exploring the content of the plans and the support offered to families on them. Drawing on data from a sample of child in need...
Support services for parents and carers in areas affected by violence can offer greater opportunities for families to understand risks posed to their children, an evaluation of two London pilot schemes finds. Read the...
The UK asylum system is retraumatising women and girls who have fled rape and sexual abuse and putting them at risk of further harm, leading charities have said.
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Support for children under the age of five through the Sure Start programme “significantly reduced” the chances of offending when they reached adolescence, a report has found. Read more.
Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are being left to wait more than five years for a formal diagnosis and access to support, research by Children’s Commissioner for England Rachel de Souza...
Royal College of Psychiatrists calls for review of laws, saying Labour has ‘moral and ethical obligation’ to protect those seeking sanctuary in UK
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Pupils with special educational needs in mainstream schools are increasingly being refused additional funding from councils in England unless they have legal documents supporting their claims. Experts say that...
Young offender institutions (YOIs) continue to lock children in cells for more than 22 hours a day despite the prisons’ inspectorate calling for an end to the practice four years ago, a progress review finds. Read the...
A quarter of children placed under a deprivation of liberty (DoL) order last year were still subject to one 12 months later, new analysis of official data shows. Read the full article on this link to Children &...
Rebecca Jeffers explores Can practitioners disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline for boys of Caribbean Heritage? as part of her undergraduate Early Childhood Education Care degree.
