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...
A senior staff member at an independent school for children with special educational needs has been recorded by BBC Panorama saying how he wanted to drown a pupil in a bath “like a kitten”. Read the full article on this...
In the first global study of its kind, new research published by the Childlight Global Child Safety Initiative, based at University of Edinburgh, has estimated that more than 300 million children across the world (one...
A national elective home education (EHE) register could help improve the lives of home-schooled children who have “little or no contact with the world outside their family”, a report by safeguarding experts has found...
Hundreds of children identified as potential victims of trafficking are being abandoned by the Home Office and left vulnerable to exploitation, new data reveals. Released following a freedom of information (FoI)...
The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a report on advocacy support during the criminal justice process for children who have experienced sexual and domestic abuse. The Commissioner examined data from all...
Parents in England and Northern Ireland should be banned from smacking their children because doing so is unjust, dangerous and harmful, leading doctors have urged ministers. It was “a scandal” that Scotland and Wales...
NSPCC Learning has published a report exploring what children know, think, and would do about child abuse as part of the Together for Childhood (TfC) place-based approach. The approach involves local communities and...
Young people with experience of the criminal justice system say the second most common place for them to see police is at their home, with incidents often involving excessive force from officers. Read the full article...
A landmark healthcare review has called on the NHS to ensure gender identity services for young people match the standards of its other forms of care and support. Read the full article on this link to Children &...
Action for Children has published a review of child criminal exploitation across the UK. The review explores the scale and nature of the criminal exploitation of children and includes insight from the lived experiences...
