The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a new report on children referred to Prevent – the government’s counter extremism programme. The report is based on analysis of Home Office data and...
The Centre for Young Lives has published its annual State of the Nation report, collating data and indicators to track trends in poverty, mental health, education, safeguarding, housing, special educational...
The Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA Centre) has published a report on the scale and nature of child sexual abuse in England and Wales. The report includes an analysis of official data for...
The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel has published a national review into child sexual abuse within the family environment – “I wanted them all to notice”. The report draws on rapid reviews and serious case...
Young children and babies living in low-income households are often the most likely to miss out on early childhood support despite being among those most in need of help, a report by two children’s charities is...
Calls to the NSPCC Helpline from adults concerned about children experiencing domestic abuse have risen by nearly a fifth in recent months, the charity reports. Between April and September 2024, there were 3,879...
Safeguarding agencies are failing to listen to children who have been sexually abused by family members with devastating consequences, amid a “worrying evaporation” of skills among the professionals meant to protect...
Internet Matters has published a report on children’s experiences of nude deepfakes, AI-generated or manipulated images or videos made to look real. The report estimates that 13% of UK teenagers have had an...
The 2020 report by HMI Prisons found that “children were subject to widespread solitary confinement, spending more than 22 hours a day locked in their cells with no meaningful human contact or oversight”. A review of...
The Government Equalities Office, Equality Hub and Department for Education (DfE) have published research evaluating the government’s anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying programme which ran from...
Community Care has published an article on domestic abuse and social work practice and training. The article discusses findings from a research project into domestic abuse and child protection. The researchers...
Brid Featherstone and Kate Morris share emerging findings from their research into domestic abuse and child protection in response to the debate over when practitioners should be taught about coercive control. Read more.
The new Labour government has pledged to legislate to strengthen the child protection system in its first King’s Speech. The long-awaited reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 and action to deliver “fair pay” for staff...
