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Poor housing is harming the health of one in five renters in England, with mould, damp and cold the main triggers of sickness, a major survey by the housing charity Shelter has revealed. Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share...
Modern slavery
Hestia has published a report looking at the needs and experiences of mothers who are survivors of modern slavery and the potential impact of their trafficking experiences for their children. Findings from research based on the testimony of 20 women...
Children and young people in care
The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory has published a series of reports looking at children and young people subject to care proceedings in England and Wales. Analysis of administrative data collected by the Children and Family Court Advisory and...
Children and young people’s mental health
The Centre for Mental Health has published a review of girls in the Children and Young People Secure Estate (CYPSE). Findings from the review, commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement in partnership with the Youth Custody Service, include:...
Children and young people’s mental health
Unicef has published a report examining child, adolescent and caregiver mental health around the world. The report finds that: more than 13% of adolescents aged 10–19 live with a diagnosed mental disorder as defined by the World Health Organization...
Life expectancy gap in England ‘a growing chasm’ exacerbated by Covid
England’s richest people are living for a decade longer than the poorest, and the life expectancy gap between them has widened to “a growing chasm”, research has revealed. The difference in expected lifespan between some of the wealthiest and...
Number of 10- to 17-year-olds in care proceedings doubles over last decade
The number of older children and teenagers involved in care proceedings in England has more than doubled over the last 10 years, analysis has found. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now Share this:Click to share on...
Only London’s highest earners able to rent privately at affordable cost, ONS says
Only the top 25% of earners in London were able to privately rent a property in the city at an affordable rate last year, according to official figures on costs across England. Data from the Office for National Statistics revealed that for three...
Pay gap between men and women fails to improve
The average gender pay gap of all firms that reported in the past financial year is 10.4% – the same as the average of all firms reporting in 2019-20. The BBC looked at a company’s median pay gap – that is, the difference in pay...
Girls in secure estate facing ‘high levels of trauma and risk of self-harm’
Experts are warning that girls in the youth secure estate are facing high levels of mental health problems and are at an increased risk of self-harm. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now Share this:Click to share on...
Children of modern slavery victims missing out on support, charity warns
Thousands of children of modern slavery victims are not receiving the right support to deal with intergenerational trauma, a charity has warned. Crisis charity Hestia, which supports more than 2,200 adult victims of modern slavery and 1,200...
One in five 15- to 24-year-olds globally ‘often feel depressed’, finds Unicef
Almost one in five 15- to 24-year-olds around the world say they often feel depressed, according to a new UN report. The children’s agency, Unicef, and Gallup conducted interviews in 21 countries during the first six months of the year. Read the...
Sector leaders vow to oppose relaxation of childcare ratios
Early years leaders have hit out at rumoured government plans to relax childcare ratios. According to the Telegraph, ministers are looking at implementing changes allowing each childminder to look after more toddlers at one time. Current guidance...
Kinship care
Kinship has published findings from their annual survey looking at what life is like for kinship carers in England and Wales. Responses to an online survey of 1,651 kinship carers caring for 2,538 children show that: 62% of carers believed that...
Children and young people’s mental health
NHS Digital has published a report looking at the mental health of children and young people in England in 2021 and how this has changed since 2017. Findings from a sample of 3,667 children and young people aged between 6 and 23 years old include:...
State of Child Poverty 2021 – The Buttle Trust
This is the third annual publication of the report, and it shows that whilst these children have had to deal with the same disruption to schooling, isolation from friends and wider family and the broader anxieties of living through the pandemic as...
Young people worst hit by charity cuts
Cuts to charity services are disproportionately affecting young people, analysis has found. The research looked at the impact of cuts to services provided by charities due to Covid-19 disruption and financial problems. This found that 17 per cent of...
Charity survey highlights problems with post-adoption contact system
More than half of post-adoption professionals have criticised the quality of services in their local area to help adoptive and birth families stay in contact. Of those surveyed, 52 per cent described the quality of the current system of ‘letterbox’...
