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

Marginalised & Excluded News Poverty

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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Marginalised & Excluded News Poverty

Modern slavery referrals up 300% in UK due to improved identification

There has been a 300% increase in the number of victims of modern slavery referred for support in the past six years, and a huge increase in the number of men from Vietnam trafficked to work in illegal cannabis farms...

October 16, 2017

Early Years Looked After Children Marginalised & Excluded News

Alexis Jay: ‘If I see poor practice I will nail that’

There can be few people in social work better prepared than Professor Alexis Jay to lead the mammoth Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which started evidence hearings this week. Recounting the early days...

October 12, 2017

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Longfield calls for action on ‘shockingly poor’ children’s mental health treatment

A generation of children will enter adulthood with mental health problems unless government takes urgent action to address the “shockingly poor” state of children’s mental health services...

October 10, 2017

Articles & Opinion Marginalised & Excluded

One day, three news stories….and children’s rights.

I was struck by the irony behind three different news stories all reported on Monday July 20th 2015 and a common thread of children’s rights that implicitly linked them. Firstly, key messages to be delivered in...

October 10, 2017

Articles & Opinion Marginalised & Excluded

Homophobia isn’t over yet

Britain has made great strides towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality since the turn of the century. We have gone from being the country with the largest number of anti-gay laws to...

October 10, 2017

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UK global performance on children’s rights now one of the worst

The UK has been accused of providing “inadequate” protection of children’s rights after it fell dramatically in global rankings for child rights within a year, from 11th to 156th. Serious concerns have been raised about...

October 9, 2017

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Child protection thresholds rising ‘due to budget pressures’

It is getting harder for vulnerable children to receive the support they need, with the level at which they are deemed to qualify for services rising in recent years as a result of ongoing financial pressures, research...

September 28, 2017

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Ofsted criticises lack of action to prevent domestic abuse

Not enough is being done to prevent domestic abuse and address the impact it has on children, Ofsted has warned. A report on the way agencies respond to children living with domestic abuse found that social workers, the...

September 28, 2017

Articles & Opinion Marginalised & Excluded

Fighting back: The war against social workers

The government has recently restated its intention to press ahead with reforms which may result in Social Workers being jailed for up to five years for the criminal charge of wilful neglect. At a recent NSPCC conference...

September 26, 2017

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