Terry Potter
Vulnerability 360
As Britain looked to recover and rebuild after the devastation of World War Two it turned to the Commonwealth. But many of the migrants who filled crucial jobs amid labour shortages routinely encountered racism and discrimination. Read the full...
Most deprived schools hit hardest by education cuts in England, IFS says
Cuts to education spending in England over the last decade are “effectively without precedent in postwar UK history” and have hit the most deprived schools hardest, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Its report highlights how...
Campaigners welcome inclusion of children’s rights in care review
Children’s rights will be officially included in a Care Review framework that draws up new proposals to reform children’s social care, following a successful campaign by sector leaders. The move means the review, which has entered its penultimate...
Drop in number of council-run children’s homes
The number of local authority-run children’s homes in England and Wales decreased between April and August this year, according to latest figures from Ofsted. A new report from the inspectorate also notes that, in the same time period, 150 new...
Violence against Women and Girls
The United Nations’ (UN’s) 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence began on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day. To mark this, the...
Under-fives adversely impacted by Covid-19 pandemic, study shows
Children in the early years have experienced adverse impacts on their physical health and wellbeing as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report shows. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now Share this:Click...
Climate crisis posing growing risk to the homeless, UK charities tell ministers
Homeless people and those in poor housing are at increasing risk from the climate crisis, while suffering the consequences of our dependence on costly fossil fuels, housing charities have warned. Read the full article on this link to The Guardian...
‘Shocking’ that UK is moving child refugees into hotels
Children’s Society criticises practice of placing unaccompanied minors in hotels with limited care. Record numbers of unaccompanied child asylum seekers who arrived in the UK on small boats are being accommodated in four hotels along England’s south...
People with autism are being locked away in institutions. A radical change is needed
My panel oversees reviews into detention cases of people with autism. I see how the system fails those it should help Sheila Hollins is emeritus professor of psychiatry of learning disability at St George’s University, London Read the full article...
Winning hearts and minds for decent, affordable housing
The way we talk about housing matters. JRF and the Nationwide Foundation are collaborating with FrameWorks UK to understand public attitudes to housing and how to build support for social change. Our new briefing explores what the public’s commonly...
UK parents missing out on ‘tax-free childcare’ scheme, data shows
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Children harmed by school streaming into lower ability groups, UK study shows
Primary school children who are placed in the bottom ability group in their class go on to show increased levels of hyperactivity and emotional problems throughout childhood and early adolescence, groundbreaking new research shows. Read the full...
