The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has published a report looking at child health and wellbeing in the UK. The report brings together evidence across 12 indicators of child health...
The House of Common’s Education Committee has published a report examining the state of children’s social care in England. The inquiry looked at the system as a whole, as well as focusing on key areas...
For the past 35 years, various governments have claimed to have variations on a similar set of goals for the UK economy: decarbonise; spread more wealth and growth out of London; end the housing crisis;...
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As an organisation and as people we were shocked, sickened and outraged by the vicious killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The horrific video of this brutal killing, carried out by a police officer over 9 minutes...
Eight council have triggered provisions to suspend duties under the Care Act 2014 in order to manage workforce shortages and demand pressures during the Covid-19 pandemic. Birmingham, Coventry, Derbyshire, Solihull...
Troubling recent changes to legislation around looked-after children, ostensibly due to coronavirus, appear to have little grounding in necessity. The sector deserves an explanation, writes Harvey Gallagher Read the...
Charmaine Sawyers explores the importance of cultural representations in ECEC settings in her research entitled ‘The Importance of Cultural Representations in ECEC setting’ as part of her undergraduate Early...
Girls transitioning to secondary school are much more likely to develop mental health problems than boys, according to new research.
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Spending on youth services has been cut by nearly £1bn in real terms in the space of eight years, the latest analysis of local authority figures shows. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People...
State of the Nation: 2019: Children and Young People’s Wellbeing
Research report
October 2019
Department for Education
A report on wellbeing in children and young people including psychological health in teenage girls.
State of the nation 2019: children and young people’s wellbeing
This research has been published on the Newman University website. The author has provided the following introduction to the report “Should synthetic phonics remain mandated as the only way to teach all children...
