Death rate three to four times higher than among general population blamed on isolation of those leaving care
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NHS ombudsman warns of years-long waits and patients paying thousands to go private as demand for services soars
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Nearly a quarter of households with children under five are experiencing food poverty, rising to one in two among single-parent families, according to analysis by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) think...
The government has permanently barred the use of young offender institutions (YOI) to detain girls sentenced to custody.
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The government should fund the creation of a network of Scandinavian-style specialist support centres for children who have been sexually abused or exploited, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Speaking...
The government is being urged by MPs to amend its Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ensure all eligible children are automatically enrolled for free school meals. This would remove the current requirement for low...
The Fostering Network has published its 2024 State of the Nations’ Foster Care report, revealing that experiences of burnout and poor wellbeing from foster carers are subsequently creating greater instability for...
This report summarises some key insights on children’s experiences with social care, which have been generated through research using administrative data. It serves as a source of evidence for policymakers and...
Children and young people living in the most deprived areas of England are nearly three-and-a-half times more likely than their more affluent peers to have teeth removed in hospital due to severe decay, government...
About one in four children are deemed to be in need during their childhoods, finds new research. With the rate likely to be higher in deprived areas, this illustrates the need to tackle the root causes, argue its...
Special schools are more likely to employ teachers without qualified teacher status than mainstream settings, according to latest research. While in mainstream primary and secondary schools around 3% of teachers do not...
Campaigners are urging the government to take urgent action to tackle the “stark” overrepresentation of young people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in the criminal justice system, after research...
Kinship, the UK’s leading kinship care charity, was behind the 50-strong rally, which took place alongside the release of its report showing that kinship carers contribute £4.3 billion to the UK economy each year, but...
