Birmingham City Council is to reduce the number of children’s centres it runs by 37 as part of a major reorganisation of early years services. The local authority first announced plans to make changes to early...
Children’s use of the internet: literature review
The UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) has published a literature review looking at children’s use of the internet, focussing on trends and emerging issues, and the online risk of harm to children and...
£20 million fund to make children’s services work more closely together
Local authorities will be expected to work together in ‘Regional Improvement Alliances’ under new plans announced by the government. Children’s minister Robert Goodwill announced that up to £20 million would be spent on...
Alexis Jay: ‘If I see poor practice I will nail that’
There can be few people in social work better prepared than Professor Alexis Jay to lead the mammoth Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which started evidence hearings this week. Recounting the early days...
Ethical dilemmas dominate in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act
Ethical dilemmas dominate in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act How does a judge in the Family Division of the High Court protect the interests of a young person when the secular world of medical expertise conflicts with...
Early childhood education: re-asserting the role of story-telling
We believe that the roots of [the converging crises of our times] lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves…We will reassert the role of storytelling as more than mere entertainment. It is through stories...
