Ofsted has published a new report on local authority support for homeless children aged 16 and 17-years-old in England. The report sets out evidence from inspections of local authority children’s services, focus groups...
Commissioner calls for government roll out of ‘child house’ approach in England
The government should fund the creation of a network of Scandinavian-style specialist support centres for children who have been sexually abused or exploited, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Speaking...
Education committee backs free school meals auto-enrolment
The government is being urged by MPs to amend its Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ensure all eligible children are automatically enrolled for free school meals. This would remove the current requirement for low...
‘Our finding that social care touches a quarter of children shows the need to tackle poverty’
About one in four children are deemed to be in need during their childhoods, finds new research. With the rate likely to be higher in deprived areas, this illustrates the need to tackle the root causes, argue its...
Calls to tackle ‘shocking’ racial disproportionality in youth justice
Campaigners are urging the government to take urgent action to tackle the “stark” overrepresentation of young people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in the criminal justice system, after research...
Calls to tackle ‘shocking’ racial disproportionality in youth justice
Campaigners are urging the government to take urgent action to tackle the “stark” overrepresentation of young people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in the criminal justice system, after research...
