NICE is consulting on a draft guideline for social workers, health professionals, practitioners and others working with children and young people who are disabled or have severe complex needs. This will also be used to develop the NICE...
Evaluation of Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs)
17 January 2019 Findings on the effectiveness of Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs). Includes the application experience and support given to students. Access this research: Evaluation of Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) Author(s): Department...
Children and young people’s mental health
The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has published a report following their inquiry into mental health services for children and young people in England. The inquiry looked at how Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England...
Helping children with learning disabilities recover from sexual abuse
The NSPCC has published the results of a formative evaluation of its Letting the Future In for children with learning disabilities (LTFI-LD) service. LTFI-LD builds on Letting the Future In (LTFI), which provides therapeutic support to children who...
Learning resources: research in practice
Research in Practice (RiP) has released new learning resources aimed at children’s services practitioners. Topics include: the impact of domestic abuse and controlling behaviour on children in a family environment; understanding social work...
Extra SEND funding insufficient, warn children’s services leaders
Extra government funding to meet the costs of educating rising numbers of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is insufficient to avert a schools cash “crisis”, children’s services leaders have said. Read...
