The overall cost of a child over 18 years (including rent and childcare) is £150, 753 for a couple and £183,335 for a lone parent. But work doesn’t pay low-income families enough to meet a no-frills standard of living, new research from Child...
Growing numbers of children are not getting enough food to eat over the school holidays, research has found. A survey of 657 secondary school teachers by the National Education Union (NEU) found that teachers thought holiday hunger is affecting more...
People living in the poorest parts of the UK are more likely to die prematurely, BBC analysis shows. The mortality rate from avoidable causes is more than three times higher in some of the most deprived parts of the country than the most affluent...
The BBC reports that the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee has heard evidence from experts pointing out that bullying, racism and feeling left out of the curriculum are major factors in low school attendance rates among children and...
Use of algorithms to identify families for attention raises stereotyping and privacy fears.Vast quantities of data on hundreds of thousands of people is being used to construct computer models in an effort to predict child abuse and intervene before...
There is a growing concern about the mental health of children and young people (CYP) in the UK, with increasing demand for counselling services, admissions for self-harm and referrals to mental health services. We investigated whether there have...
At a women and equalities select committee hearing on educational inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities, MPs heard that poor attendance was the key reason for the low educational outcomes for children from these...
The NSPCC has launched NSPCC Learning, a new website with the latest child protection and safeguarding news, information and training. The new website brings together information and resources for professionals working in safeguarding and child...
Legislation has been put forward in Scotland to ban parents from smacking their children. Currently in Scottish law parents are allowed to use physical punishment on their children under the defence of “justifiable assault”. The Children...
