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...
End Violence Against Children and a coalition of other organisations have published a report on corporal punishment which focuses on eliminating its use in education settings globally. The report looks at: prevalence...
Human rights organisation Liberty and eight other grassroots groups and campaigning organisations have published a report on policing and serious youth violence in the UK. The report sets out new approaches to youth...
An urgent notice for action has been issued to the justice secretary after conditions at a young offender institution were deemed “a scandal”. Inspectors found boys at Cookham Wood in Kent were improvising...
The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel has published the second of two reports from its national safeguarding practice review into safeguarding children with disabilities and complex needs in residential settings...
The government’s child safeguarding advisers have urged major reforms to protect severely disabled young people in residential care after “horrific and shocking” abuse revelations at a string of homes run by a private...
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has published a report looking at factors influencing the diagnosis of non accidental injuries in infants who visit emergency departments (ED) in England. Findings from...
Staff in hospital emergency departments in England are struggling to spot when infants are being physically abused by their parents, raising the risk of further harm, an investigation has found. Read the full article on...
The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a report on family contact in youth custody in England and Wales. Data was collected from 430 children who were in youth custody settings. Findings include: only 56%...
A two-year study has launched looking at the effectiveness of Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships, the multi-agency teams that oversee child protection services across councils, police and health. Read the full...
A coalition of almost 100 children’s charities is warning the government that successive policy “failures” over the last five years are eroding children’s rights in England. The coalition says that “children remain...
