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 Department for Education (DfE) and the Home Office (HO) have published a research report looking at how local authorities support and accommodate non-European Economic Area (EEA) migrant children identified as...
Concerns have been raised about the ability of local authority children’s services to meet escalating demand, after the government announced that councils’ spending power is to rise by only 1.5 per cent next...
Homelessness in England is a national crisis and the government’s approach to tackling the problem has been an abject failure, a committee of MPs has said. More than 9,000 people are sleeping rough on the streets and...
Spending on youth services by local authorities last year fell by £42m more than initially predicted, government figures have revealed. Councils spent less than initially predicted on youth services in 2016/17...
Homelessness is now a serious risk for working families with stable jobs who cannot find somewhere affordable to live after being evicted by private-sector landlords seeking higher rents, the local government...
London’s Euston station is to open up as a shelter for hundreds of homeless people on Christmas Day. The central London railway hub will be laid out with tables and festive decorations as it welcomes 200 of the city’s...
Children’s charity Barnardo’s has claimed schools are failing young people who care for sick or disabled family members. The charity said research it commissioned found that 40 per cent of teachers were...
Spurgeons Children’s Charity has released findings from Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to NHS Trusts in England which have either child and adolescent mental health Services (CAMHS), or A&E departments...
Children’s sector leaders have hit out at the lack of additional funding in the Budget to address pressures in schools, social care and youth services. Outlining the government’s economic priorities for the...
