Terry Potter
Mark Cronin
Children and young people’s (CYP) space to play can be constrained in families affected by domestic violence and abuse (DVA), potentially impacting their development. Play also has the potential to strengthen CYP’s capacity to resist...
Care leavers’ views about transition: a literature review
Considerable attention has been given to the vulnerability of young people leaving care in the UK in their transition to adulthood. To date, however, there has been limited focus on the perceptions of care leavers about what factors enable…...
Why do we educate people in prison?
Many years ago, I trained to be a secondary school English teacher. I have always been passionate about the joys and benefits of reading. Usually, when the Government talks about reading, the focus is on literacy. And of course, literacy is key to...
Parents ‘missing out on new baby health visits’
About one in four new parents in England is not seeing a health visitor when their baby turns one, increasing the risk of mental health problems going unnoticed, the NSPCC says. Read the full article on this link to the BBC Share this:Click to share...
Surge in reports of children being left at home during school holidays, NSPCC says
The NSPCC saw a surge in correspondence about children being left unsupervised during the school holidays last year. The charity urged parents to think carefully before leaving their children on their own after it published data revealing that 5,737...
Viewing Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Through a Developmental, Social-Ecological, and Survivor Lens: The Current State of the Field, Challenges, and Future Directions.
Although some children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) demonstrate resilience, the population-level health consequences of exposure across the lifespan and the related social and economic costs of such exposure are enormous. Using a...
Change the law on ‘children’s home’ definition, urges ICHA
The term “children’s home” should be legally protected and used only to describe regulated settings, a sector body has said in response to negative media reports. The new definition should be produced by the Department for...
Two-thirds of Boris Johnson’s Cabinet were privately educated, Sutton Trust research reveals
Nearly two-thirds of Boris Johnson’s first Cabinet were privately educated, research suggests. The proportion of former independent school pupils is higher than David Cameron’s 2015 top team and nearly twice Theresa May’s in 2016, the Sutton Trust...
Think the UK has the most ‘generous’ disability benefits? Think again!
Damning new figures obtained by an independent news agency rubbishes claims by UK ministers that the UK has one of the most generous welfare systems for people with disabilities or long-term illness. Read the full article on this link to Welfare...
State schools choose ‘posh’ uniforms to exclude poor pupils, says MP
Some schools are deliberately pricing school uniforms beyond the means of poorer families so “only posh kids go there”, MPs have been told. Emma Hardy, the Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle, has written to the education secretary...
Future early years minimum wage rise ‘unsustainable’
The early years sector has warned it cannot afford another minimum wage increase – unless the government plugs a claimed £662m funding shortfall. The Early Years Alliance chief executive Neil Leitch said early years professionals deserve...
Pain-inducing restraint ban: Government delays decision
Campaigners have criticised the government for failing to carry out a recommendation to ban pain-inducing restraint within the youth secure estate, which has been described as child abuse. A recently published government response to the joint...
Breast-ironing recognised as child abuse
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has updated the So-Called Honour-Based Abuse and Forced Marriage guidance to recognise breast-ironing, which involves flattening a girl’s chest with a hot stone or other objects to delay breast growth, as child...
Domestic Abuse Bill 2017-19
The government has published its response to the report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill for England and Wales which made recommendations to ensure that children who witness or experience domestic abuse are treated as...
The Adoption Barometer
The adoption landscape is constantly shifting. In recent years, the number of adoptions has fallen, but the number of children being taken into care has risen. Regionalisation in England and Wales has changed the structures within which adoption...
‘We Are Ghosts’ – Race, Class and Institutional Prejudice
This joint report by CLASS and the Runnymede Trust follows a year-long study assessing how people across 14 London boroughs identified in terms of class and race. The report found that interviewees firmly rejected the ‘dehumanising’ way that public...
Independent review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015: government response
The Home Office has published a policy paper in response to the recommendations made in the independent review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 carried out by Frank Field MP, Maria Miller MP and Baroness Butler-Sloss. The independent review included...
