Terry Potter
Vulnerability 360White Paper sets out plan to implement much of 2018 review of act including enabling people to nominate a person to help with care decisions and express advance preferences for treatment. Read the full article on this link to Community Care Share...
Homelessness
Centrepoint has published a report on youth homelessness in the UK. Figures provided by local authorities and devolved administrations show that an estimated 121,000 young people aged between 16 and 24 asked local authorities for help with...
Smacking children may have lasting impact, research suggests
Call for England to follow Scotland’s lead and give children same protection from violence as adults. Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in...
CELCIS – free online courses on supporting vulnerable children
Sign up to the free online courses. Two of the free, six-week online courses are currently open for registration! Sign up now to take part in Caring for Vulnerable Children or Caring for Children Moving Alone, both starting 15 February, and read...
How Black and ethnic minority mental health patients’ cultural needs frequently go unmet
Ward staff can mistakenly see religious beliefs as symptoms of mental illness and lack confidence in meeting cultural needs, but better training and effective assessments, using the social model, can help, finds research. Read the full article on...
Children and young people’s mental health – policy, CAMHS services, funding and education
Successive Governments have pledged to improve mental health support for children and young people. This briefing covers recent Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Education and NHS policy. Children and young people’s mental health...
Childhood Obesity Is Associated with Poor Academic Skills and Coping Mechanisms
Objective To assess the relationship between obesity and select childhood flourishing markers including academic skills and coping strategies. Study design Cross-sectional study utilizing parental reported data for children aged 10-17 years (n = 22...
Church threatens legal action over solitary confinement of children at Rainsbrook STC
A church in Kent has warned the Ministry of Justice it will take legal action unless it moves to immediately end solitary confinement of children at a youth custody establishment. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now...
County Lines: How do we tackle the issues and support young people? Free webinar from Leicestershire Cares
In the next free webinar in the #BBBYouthWelfare series, we will be discussing county lines – how criminal gangs target and exploit young people, what the national picture is, the actions being taken locally to tackle and prevent and how we can...
Pay gap in Britain between executives and workers ‘obscene’, says union
Unions have described companies who pay their chief executives huge multiples of their workers average salary as obscene, and called on ministers and shareholders to act to end the “runaway train” of inequality in corporate Britain. A report by the...
Thousands of children sent to unregulated care homes amid Covid
Thousands of the most vulnerable children have been sent to unregulated care homes during the pandemic at a cost of millions to the taxpayer, a Guardian investigation has found. Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to...
A Család Az Család: What we have learnt from 15 years of same-sex adoption and fostering in England
(This article has been written to help inform an audience in Hungary as well as those interested in the topic in the UK. It is the intension of the author to have the text translated into Hungarian in the coming weeks for publication in that...
