The English children’s services system is a “tower of Jenga held together by Sellotape” and needs major reform and investment, the head of an independent review has found. Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to share...
Child protection services in England are too focused on investigating families in crisis and do not provide enough early support, a report says. An independent review of council-run children’s social care said services to protect vulnerable...
Ministers have been accused of “shamelessly, knowingly” underfunding the early years sector in England over the past decade, driving childcare costs up and quality down, after a two-year investigation by a body representing the sector. Read the full...
Early warning signs of self-harm can appear in children almost a decade before it starts, say researchers. The team at the University of Cambridge found two distinct groups that were more likely to damage themselves. Read the full article on this...
The Parent-Infant Foundation has published findings from an online survey of 283 practitioners working in NHS infant, children and/or young people’s mental health services across the UK, looking at the provision of services for children of different...
Minority ethnic women almost twice as likely to be on zero-hours contracts as white men, report shows. Women of colour are almost twice as likely to be on zero-hours contracts as white men and almost one and a half times more likely than white...
One-fifth of practitioners have taken time off due to stress during pandemic, finds snapshot survey by the Social Workers’ Benevolent Trust, the latest study to highlight Covid’s negative impact on profession. Three-quarters of social workers are...
The chair of the Independent Review into Children’s Social Care has launched a stinging attack on private companies that make a profit from running children’s homes. Josh MacAlister said that profiteering from the sector is “indefensible” given...
Sexual harassment and online abuse have become normalised for children and young people in schools, according to an investigation by Ofsted. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
Almost a third of children’s mental health practitioners have said they do not understand infant mental health, a new survey has revealed. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
Child labour has risen for the first time in two decades and the coronavirus crisis threatens to push millions more youngsters towards the same fate, Unicef has said. Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to share on...
The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory has published a report providing new evidence about the number of newborn babies and infants in care proceedings in England and Wales, as well as the frequency of urgent hearings in these cases. Figures show...
The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) and researchers from Cambridge University and the University of Kent have published findings from a scoping review of academic and grey literature looking at the evidence base in relation to the delivery and...
A petition, set up by founder of motherhood charity Pregnant Then Screwed Joely Brearly, calling for the review has so far amassed more than 95,000 signatures in just under two weeks. It is calling for the government to commission an independent...
The government must introduce a legal duty requiring local authorities to provide early help services to struggling families, the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) has said. A new report by the charity and the University of Cambridge finds that...
As a female-dominated profession, performing mentally and physically demanding roles, the government is seeking social workers’ views to help shape its Women’s Health Strategy, say the chief social workers for adults. Read the full...
In the rush to go ‘back to normal’, must we sacrifice all the gains that have been made on disability inclusion? Read this article by Frances Ryan in The Guardian Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook...
Social Work England’s new head of equality, diversity and inclusion, Ahmina Akhtar, sets out her priorities for tackling inequalities within her organisation and in the profession as a whole. Read the full article on this link to Community...
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