Terry Potter
Vulnerability 360The Department for Health & Social Care has published the fifth progress report of the Suicide Prevention Strategy for England setting out the steps taken to reduce deaths by suicide since January 2019. The report includes: a section on suicide...
‘My intuition told me something was wrong’: three women denied help for their eating disorders
The women who felt their eating disorders were not taken seriously by doctors tell their stories 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 new...
Lockdown brings alarming rise in modern slavery
Reports of sexual and criminal exploitation have risen alarmingly during the pandemic, according to new data measuring the scale of modern slavery and trafficking in the UK. Read the full report on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to share...
The poisonously patronising Sewell report is historically illiterate
Since its publication, the report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities has been denounced as “divorced from reality” by public health experts. Dame Doreen Lawrence has warned that it risks pushing the fight against racism “back 20 years...
Ofsted to launch sexual abuse review
Ofsted will launch an immediate review of safeguarding policies in state and independent schools over responses to allegations of sexual abuse. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now Share this:Click to share on...
No 10’s race report widely condemned as ‘divisive’
A landmark report on racial disparity has been widely condemned by MPs, unions, and equality campaigners as “divisive” and a missed opportunity for systematic change. Critics said the report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities had...
DfE announces review into school sexual abuse
Ofsted will look at safeguarding policies in state and independent schools and an NSPCC-run helpline will go live on Thursday Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share...
Calls or ‘urgent reform’ of services to protect young children and babies
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for “urgent reform” of child protection and early help services for young children and babies, researchers have said. Latest government data reveals that incidents involving the death or serious harm of...
Early years
The Department of Health and Social Care has published a policy report as part of the early years healthy development review to improve babies’ and children’s healthy development in their first 1,001 days of life in England. The report...
Children in social care
The Department for Education (DfE) has published figures on outcomes for children in need including children looked after by local authorities in England. The findings, which cover the year ending 31 March 2020, include: 48.3% of children in need...
Children in poverty
The Department for Work & Pensions has published reports on the number of children living in low income families from 2014 to 2020 and the number and percentage of children in low income households from 1995 to 2020 in England. The figures show...
From Magna Carta to Malcolm X: sites that shaped British civil rights
A year of Covid has pushed civil rights into the spotlight as never before. As fundamental freedoms to go outside and gather have been suspended, people have nonetheless taken to the streets to protest against racial inequality and the denial of...
