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...
An overhaul of safeguarding practice is needed to tackle a failure to address racism and racial bias, say experts. The call has been made by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, based on reviews of more than 50...
Practitioners are failing children at significant risk of sexual abuse, warn analysts who have revealed a record 8% drop in identification of the harm compared with last year. In 2023/24, children’s services placed...
A scammer used AI to paste a teenage boy’s face onto a naked body before extorting him for cash, the new head of the NSPCC has warned in a stark example of the new horrors facing children online. Read the full article...
The Department for Education (DfE) has published a new report as part of its serious violence research programme looking at how systems of support impact young people. The latest report focuses on the role of key...
Leading child doctors have joined calls for a complete ban on smacking children in England, saying there is no evidence it has any positive effect on their wellbeing.
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The Crime and Policing Bill has been laid before Parliament. It includes provisions to introduce: new offences of child criminal exploitation and cuckooing (where a vulnerable person’s home is used by others to commit...
The government should fund the creation of a network of Scandinavian-style specialist support centres for children who have been sexually abused or exploited, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Speaking...
Children and young people living in the most deprived areas of England are nearly three-and-a-half times more likely than their more affluent peers to have teeth removed in hospital due to severe decay, government...
The Youth Endowment Fund has published a report on the representation of ethnic groups in data on violence affecting children and young people in England and Wales. The report uses data from public datasets as well as...
The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a report on the Government’s progress in reducing violence against women and girls in England and Wales since the publication of the Tackling Violence Against Women and...
