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 Home Office has published an independent audit on group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) in England and Wales. The review, led by Baroness Casey, looks at the scale, nature and characteristics of...
NSPCC Learning has published four case studies exploring the effectiveness of the Together for Childhood (TfC) programme. TfC, the NSPCC’s place-based approach to preventing child abuse and neglect, aims to...
Listen Up has published a report on adultification within child safeguarding practice in England. Adultification is a form of bias where children from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic communities are perceived as...
The Firs in Nottinghamshire closed suddenly in April, exposing shocking failures that underscore the strains on care provision across the country
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HM Inspectorate of Probation (HMI Probation) has published a research analysis bulletin and three briefing papers exploring how transitional safeguarding is understood and applied within youth justice and probation...
Early help spending on children aged four and under has halved since 2010 – with money instead being diverted to urgent and crisis support, such as taking children into care, research has found. While public...
The Youth Endowment Fund has published new guidance to help prevent children’s involvement in violence in England and Wales. The report discusses the prevalence of violence in education settings and sets out eight...
The government is being urged to use the forthcoming spending review to commit to increasing the number of early support mental health hubs for young people. The Centre for Mental Health charity and NHS Confederation’s...
The Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales has published a new report investigating children’s experiences of domestic abuse and highlighting the financial pressure facing specialist services. The report...
An amendment to the bill removing the defence of ‘reasonable chastisement’ would be murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif’s legacy, said Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England. The issue returned...
