The worst council cuts are still to come, with more than £900m of reductions set to be made next year affecting children’s services, early years, and youth services, the organisation representing county councils has warned. A survey by the...
Generation of young carers ‘neglected by society’
A charity has accused the government of failing to support too many young people with caring responsibilities after it emerged that there could be as many as 800,000 young carers in England. Carers Trust said figures gathered following a survey give...
Child arrests in England and Wales
The Howard League for Penal Reform has published a research briefing on child arrests in England and Wales. Analysis of freedom of information data from 43 police service areas in England and Wales and the British Transport Police shows that: there...
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils’ experiences at school
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...
Councils use 377,000 people’s data in efforts to predict child abuse
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...
Mental health and well-being trends among children and young people in the UK, 1995–2014: analysis of repeated cross-sectional national health surveys
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...
