Academics have found a lack of evidence to support the children’s social care sector’s focus on the combined impact of parental mental illness, drug or alcohol abuse and domestic violence. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young...
COVID-19 ‘having a devastating impact on children’s rights’
In a report to the government on the impact of the health crisis on existing inequalities faced by young people, the EHRC say “key concerns include more children being pushed into poverty, widening educational inequalities and worsening mental...
Children missing education
The Local Government Association (LGA) has published a report looking at children missing out on a formal full-time education in England. The report, commissioned in December 2019, estimates that in 2018/19 more than a quarter of a million children...
Number of unemployed people in UK over 50 rises by third, figures suggest
There are now 91,000 more unemployed older people than there were 12 months ago
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Homophobic and racist online bullying increasing, research warns
The survey found that 15 per cent of online bullying messages among children is LGBT+ related, compared with four per cent in 2015. Over the same period the proportion of racist bullying online rose from four to 13 per cent, according to research...
Number of refugees safely resettled at record low, says UNHCR
UN urges UK to restart programme of resettlement suspended during pandemic
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