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 Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA Centre) has published a report compiling recent studies on children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour. Findings include: during 2021/22 in England...
Data from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request shows that one in four early help referrals made between 2016 and 2022 were returned to schools without action. The investigation, by charity School-Home Support (SHS)...
The number of frontline children’s social workers employed by English councils or children’s trusts has tumbled by 8% since 2020, official data shows. The Department for Education’s annual workforce census, released...
Lone children as young as 14 have been detained at the Manston asylum seeker processing centre in Kent, a freedom of information request has revealed.
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Fears are mounting that modern slavery survivors could be left at risk of retrafficking within the UK due to a lack of resources to support them, charities are warning.
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University College London have published a report, commissioned by the London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), on how knife imagery posted on social media by police impacts young people in London. The VRU’s Young People’s...
The University of Bedfordshire has published new research funded by the NSPCC and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which looks at peer support and relationships after sexual abuse experienced in adolescence...
Crimestoppers has published a report by the University of Suffolk into sexual harassment in the UK which explores the impact on women and girls. Findings from a survey of 1,802 participants in the UK include: 16.8% of...
Dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a Brighton hotel run by the Home Office in a pattern apparently being repeated across the south coast, an Observer investigation can reveal. Read the...
Pupils from minority groups are more likely to feel unsafe in school than their peers, with those identifying as LGBTQ+ worst affected, new research shows. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young...
