A crisis in funding for children with special educational needs is plunging councils across the country deeper into the red and forcing parents into lengthy legal battles to secure support, according to an Observer investigation that reveals a...
Youth homelessness: Councils refuse support in more than half of cases
More than half of young people who present themselves as homeless or at risk of homelessness do not receive any meaningful support from their local authority, a charity has warned. Research carried out by homelessness charity Centrepoint, based on...
Emotional wellbeing: drug use
User Voice has investigated drug use in the children and young people in secure estate, covering young offender institutions, secure training centres and secure children’s homes. The report, commissioned by NHS England, was based on 16 focus...
Children and young people with learning disabilities
The Institute of Health Equity (IHE) at University College London has summarised research into the health inequalities for people with learning disabilities, including children and young people. Findings include: compared with the general...
Future of early help ‘under serious threat’
Services supporting families at an early stage in order to prevent child safeguarding issues are “under serious threat”, due to pressure on budgets as a result of rapidly rising numbers of children at risk of serious harm, and short-term...
Trowler: More children considered ‘at risk’ should stay with families
More children deemed to be at risk of significant harm but not in immediate danger should remain with their families, England’s most senior children’s social worker has said. Isabelle Trowler became the first chief children and families...
Food Bank use rises significantly report The Trussell Trust
The Trussell Trust’s foodbank network provided 658,048 emergency supplies to people in crisis between April and September 2018, a 13% increase on the same period in 2017. Read more. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to...
Violence against women and girls
The Home Office has published the second progress report on the UK’s ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul convention), which describes actions taken since the...
Policy briefings: children’s chances
The University of Sheffield has published a series of policy briefings on working against the challenges faced by children and ensuring they have the best possible chances in life. The four policy briefings cover: the effectiveness of early...
‘A wall built to keep people out’: the cruel, bureaucratic maze of children’s services
In a system cut to the bone, gaining access to the support we had been promised for our daughter’s special educational needs was an exhausting, soul-sapping battle. Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to share on...
Two thirds of children’s social workers want to leave current job, study finds
Working conditions for children’s social workers have worsened over the last year, with two thirds wanting to leave their current job, it has emerged. A survey of almost 2,000 (1,953) children social workers found that almost half (48 per...
Stay A Little Longer by Bali Rai
This is a story that’s full of very difficult issues – issues that need to be handled with care and skill – but don’t, for a minute, let that put you off. In the hands of an experienced and outstanding young adult novelist like Bali Rai it doesn’t...
