The Department for Education has published findings from a survey of 12 to 13-year-olds growing up in the 2020s. The survey forms part of a national study following young people in England from age 12 and 13...
Action for Children has published a report on its Parent Talk service for parents and carers, focusing on early adolescence from 10 to 15-years-old and family support needs. Based on data and insights from...
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a report exploring what it is like for young people growing up in England today and what key challenges they face. Analysing official data and...
Ofsted have published statistics on inspections of local authority children’s services in England as at 31 March 2026. Key findings include: the overall quality of local authority children’s services in...
The Department for Education (DfE) has published the final report for the Family Voice Project in England. The project involved work with families to explore their experiences of accessing family support...
The Department for Education (DfE) has published a research report looking at public attitudes to education and children’s services, including child abuse and child protection, across England, Scotland and Wales...
It’s May Day and our increasingly vulnerable and disempowered workforce want to know………… whatever happened to our trade unions? On the 4th May 1890 250,000 trade unionists descended on Hyde Park Corner in London...
As a former family support worker working within social work teams, the news around the introduction of the fast track social work programmes undoubtedly caught my attention and filled me with concern for the direction...
Libraries work. They make people literate. Here is some evidence. Please note few government ministers or local councillors use genuine evidence to support their decisions. “Enjoyment of reading has a greater impact on...
