Cover Layout 1

Marginalised & Excluded Poverty

Homeless children put up in shipping containers, report says

Thousands of homeless children are growing up in cheaply converted shipping containers and cramped rooms in former office blocks, putting their health and wellbeing at serious risk, according to the children’s...

August 21, 2019

Marginalised & Excluded

A new slavery museum will have no impact on racism in Britain

Sadiq Khan has given his backing to a proposal from the Fabian Society to establish a British slavery museum in London in order “to deepen our understanding of the past and strengthen our commitment to fight...

August 15, 2019

General

Academy use of unqualified teachers ‘widens inequality’

Academies employ more unqualified teachers than maintained schools in similar areas, new research shows Read the full article on this link to TES Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click...

August 15, 2019

Articles & Opinion Looked After Children

Birthday cakes, rockets and washing machines: How Fuzzy logic can empower young people

Imagine you gathered a group of people together and gave them the ingredients and instructions to bake a cake. If they followed the instructions eventually, they should all be able to bake a cake. At a much...

August 7, 2019

Poverty

Millions are in deep poverty. Meanwhile, Johnson splurges £100m on advertising

Welcome to the land of warped priority, where the Tories can find money for ruinous policies – but not for hungry families. Read the full article by Frances Ryan on this link to The Guardian Share...

August 4, 2019

Poverty

ALL KIDS COUNT: The impact of the two-child limit after two years

The two-child limit was part of a package of changes to benefits announced in 2015, aimed at reducing spending on working-age families. From 6 April 2017, low-income families having a third or subsequent child lost their entitlement to...

August 1, 2019

Safeguarding

Child’s Play? Children and Young People’s Resistances to Domestic Violence and Abuse

Children and young people’s (CYP) space to play can be constrained in families affected by domestic violence and abuse (DVA), potentially impacting their development. Play also has the potential to strengthen CYP’s capacity to resist...

August 1, 2019

Leaving Care Looked After Children

Care leavers’ views about transition: a literature review

Considerable attention has been given to the vulnerability of young people leaving care in the UK in their transition to adulthood. To date, however, there has been limited focus on the perceptions of care leavers about what factors enable…...

August 1, 2019

Marginalised & Excluded

Why do we educate people in prison?

Many years ago, I trained to be a secondary school English teacher. I have always been passionate about the joys and benefits of reading. Usually, when the Government talks about reading, the focus is on literacy. And of course, literacy is key to...

August 1, 2019

Disability mental health

Parents ‘missing out on new baby health visits’

About one in four new parents in England is not seeing a health visitor when their baby turns one, increasing the risk of mental health problems going unnoticed, the NSPCC says. Read the full article on this link to the BBC Share this:Click to share...

July 29, 2019

General Safeguarding

Surge in reports of children being left at home during school holidays, NSPCC says

The NSPCC saw a surge in correspondence about children being left unsupervised during the school holidays last year. The charity urged parents to think carefully before leaving their children on their own after it published data revealing that 5,737...

July 29, 2019

Safeguarding

Viewing Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Through a Developmental, Social-Ecological, and Survivor Lens: The Current State of the Field, Challenges, and Future Directions.

Although some children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) demonstrate resilience, the population-level health consequences of exposure across the lifespan and the related social and economic costs of such exposure are enormous. Using a...

July 29, 2019

Looked After Children

Change the law on ‘children’s home’ definition, urges ICHA

The term “children’s home” should be legally protected and used only to describe regulated settings, a sector body has said in response to negative media reports. The new definition should be produced by the Department for...

July 26, 2019

Marginalised & Excluded

Two-thirds of Boris Johnson’s Cabinet were privately educated, Sutton Trust research reveals

Nearly two-thirds of Boris Johnson’s first Cabinet were privately educated, research suggests. The proportion of former independent school pupils is higher than David Cameron’s 2015 top team and nearly twice Theresa May’s in 2016, the Sutton Trust...

July 25, 2019

Disability

Think the UK has the most ‘generous’ disability benefits? Think again!

Damning new figures obtained by an independent news agency rubbishes claims by UK ministers that the UK has one of the most generous welfare systems for people with disabilities or long-term illness. Read the full article on this link to Welfare...

July 25, 2019

Marginalised & Excluded News Poverty

State schools choose ‘posh’ uniforms to exclude poor pupils, says MP

Some schools are deliberately pricing school uniforms beyond the means of poorer families so “only posh kids go there”, MPs have been told. Emma Hardy, the Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle, has written to the education secretary...

July 24, 2019

Early Years

Future early years minimum wage rise ‘unsustainable’

The early years sector has warned it cannot afford another minimum wage increase – unless the government plugs a claimed £662m funding shortfall. The Early Years Alliance chief executive Neil Leitch said early years professionals deserve...

July 22, 2019

The Vulnerability 360 website is produced in partnership with the Letterpress Project

Social