Campaigners have accused the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson of using adoption as a “political football” after he said in a speech that local authorities “snobbery” put off potential adoptive parents...
Over the last six months as the world has locked down and battled with the pandemic, we have heard a lot of talk about the need to “Build Back Better”. I have highlighted elsewhere that “local voluntary...
Foreign rough sleepers face being deported from Britain under draconian immigration laws to be introduced when the Brexit transition period ends. Under the immigration rules to be laid before parliament and...
The court of appeal has quashed a Home Office policy of removing migrants from the UK without access to justice. In a unanimous decision, three judges found the policy, which allowed the forcible removal of a...
The English schools inspectors are apparently looking for schools to teach ‘cultural capital’. But what does cultural capital mean, and how is it changing? It’s now a full year since Ofsted, the UK schools...
The Welsh Government has published guidance for education settings on how to prevent and respond to peer sexual abuse, exploitation and harmful sexual behaviour, including digital abuse and exploitation taking place both inside and out of the...
Cafcass received 1,499 new public law cases in September featuring 2,335 children – an increase of 7.5 per cent (104 cases) and an increase of 5.7 per cent (125 children) on the 1,395 public law cases received and the 2,210 children in those...
More than 30 influential education leaders have written a letter to ministers urging the government to support footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign on free school meals. Rashford has already successfully campaigned for free school meals to be...
The number of hospital admissions for eating disorders is rising at a faster rate among people from ethnic minorities in England, prompting concerns that there may be cultural or racial factors driving them. For white ethnicities, hospital...
Spiritual and emotional abuse of LGBT people is a “ticking timebomb” for churches in the UK and could lead to legal action and demands for redress, campaigners have said. “Churches urgently need to wake up to spiritual, emotional and psychological...
A content advisory notice for racism in classic Disney films, in place since last year, has been updated with a strengthened message. When played on the Disney+ streaming service, films such as Dumbo, Peter Pan and Jungle Book now flash up with a...
The Inclusive Digital Safety, created jointly by Internet Matters and online safety charity SWGFL, provides resources on online harms for parents, carers and education professionals supporting the UK’s most vulnerable children. The hub contains...
At the time of writing, the city and suburbs of Leicester were under local lockdown due to a spike in Covid-19 cases, with allegations that this was linked to some garment factories that had not only continued to operate as the pandemic took hold...
Child victims of gangs and sexual abuse continue to be put at further risk of harm by being used as “police spies” despite Home Office action to curb the tactic, a charity has warned. Read the full article on this link to Children...
Care is a short word that is ubiquitous, used for the most intimate relationships with vulnerability and dependence from birth to death. Fired by curiosity, I have hunted out people whose lives are dominated by care, either unpaid or as part of...
Child poverty has shot up in towns and cities across the north and Midlands of England, fuelled by stagnating family incomes and the spiralling cost of housing, an analysis has found. Although deprived inner-London boroughs such as Newham and Tower...
My teachers, and the police who beat me up, all thought our past had no value. But now there’s hope things might change. Read Benjamin Zephaniah on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share...
