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Safeguarding

Social workers in schools

The What Works Centre for Child Sexual Abuse has published a report evaluating three pilot projects which embedded social workers in schools in England. The pilots in Lambeth, Southampton and Stockport...

June 1, 2020

Emotional/Mental Health Looked After Children

Children in care: life expectancy

Researchers at University College London (UCL) Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care have published findings from research looking at a link between a childhood in care and early death. A study of data...

June 1, 2020

Education Looked After Children

Care leavers and higher education

What Works for Children’s Social Care has published a report looking at care leavers and higher education. Research carried out by the CASCADE centre at Cardiff University shows a gap between the expectations...

May 26, 2020

Safeguarding

Experiences of fatherhood among men who were sexually abused in childhood.

Background Fatherhood is a complex psychological process, which is shaped at a profound level by reflections on past childhood memories and parenting experienced in childhood. Fathers who were sexually abused...

May 21, 2020

Marginalised & Excluded News

Howard League calls for end to remanding unsentenced children in custody

The Howard League for Penal Reform says most children in the youth custody estate are being held in prolonged solitary confinement because of severe restrictions imposed in response to the pandemic and has...

May 21, 2020

Education Looked After Children News

Looked-after children less likely to attend higher education, study shows

Young people in care or those who experienced care at 13 or 14 have significantly lower expectations of attending higher education than their peers, new research shows. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now Share...

May 20, 2020

Criminal Justice Looked After Children

Impact of custody on care-experienced children

The University of Bedfordshire’s Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime has published findings from research looking at factors contributing to the over-representation of looked after children in child prisons in South and West Yorkshire, and their...

May 18, 2020

Marginalised & Excluded Poverty

Girls at risk of child marriage as half of local authorities fail to keep records

Girls at risk of child marriage are falling under the radar of authorities in England and Wales because of a lack of record-keeping by more than half of the departments responsible for children’s social care, a charity has warned. IKWRO women’s...

May 18, 2020

News Poverty

Coronavirus: Better-off children ‘studying more than poorer pupils’

Children from wealthier families are spending more time each day studying in the coronavirus lockdown compared with the poorest, according to new research. A survey of families in England suggests better-off children will have studied for around...

May 18, 2020

News Poverty

Food banks’ stark warning to government: we can’t do this alone

Food banks will be unable to keep pace with spiralling demand for emergency food parcels from the growing numbers of low-income families struggling with coronavirus-related economic hardship, the UK’s largest food bank network has warned. The...

May 16, 2020

General News

National data standard for youth work launches

The first national data standard for youth work in the UK has been launched in a bid to gather data on the sector in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now Share this:Click to...

May 15, 2020

News Poverty

Call for free school meals during half-term and summer in England

More than a thousand councillors across England have written to the government calling for free school meals (FSM) to be provided over the half-term and summer breaks, after ministers said there were no plans to fund them during the forthcoming...

May 15, 2020

Disability News

‘Brink of collapse’: parents of disabled children buckling under 24-hour care

Parents of severely disabled children, are the “forgotten families on the brink of collapse” and are warning that they urgently need support as they are at the point of burnout. Families with vulnerable children are providing complex, round-the...

May 14, 2020

Elderly News

Charities report rise in older people struggling for food in lockdown

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of older people malnourished or at risk of malnutrition since the coronavirus crisis began, according to Age UK and the Malnutrition Task Force. Age UK delivers almost 19,000 food packages a week to...

May 14, 2020

Articles & Opinion Marginalised & Excluded

Recognising Gender In Early Education

A common phrase told to expecting or new parents is ‘it’s a girl / boy’ and this begins an individual’s characterisation of gender often before they are even born. Yet with an increasing number of children being referred to gender identity...

May 11, 2020

Poverty

Child poverty

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and the Church of England have published a report on the impact, since 6 April 2017, of families having a third or subsequent child no longer being entitled to additional support through child tax credit and...

May 11, 2020

Safeguarding

Motives and behaviour of perpetrators of child sexual exploitation

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has published research into the motives and behaviours of perpetrators of child sexual exploitation who operate in organised networks in England and Wales. Interviews with 26 prisoners, who...

May 11, 2020

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