A national Deprivation of Liberty Court will deal with all new cases involving children, it has been announced. The new court, announced by Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division, will launch on 4 July...
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National Deprivation of Liberty Court to deal with child cases
A national Deprivation of Liberty Court will deal with all new cases involving children, it has been announced. The new court, announced by Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division, will launch on 4 July...
A hostile environment baton passed from Theresa May to Priti Patel – and a decade of cruelty
From ‘Go home’ vans to Rwanda deportation flights, there has been a lot to learn, but we can’t and won’t succumb to despair Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens...
More than 1,000 children in care moved from their placement every week, research warns
Charities are warning that more than 1,000 looked-after children are moved on from their placement every week. Between 2018 and 2021 there were 220,210 changes to care placements, the equivalent of 1,059 changes each...
Launch of Future of Care study
The University of Oxford’s Rees Centre, at the Department of Education is partnering with Become, the national charity for children in care and young care leavers to define a new measurement of success for care leavers...
Unpaid carers changing the systems that trap them in poverty
Our society and the systems and services we have built do not value unpaid care work. In this blog, JRF outlines how we are working with people with lived experience of unpaid care work to develop policy recommendations...
Expand free school meals eligibility ‘to reduce stigma’, DfE urged
Widening eligibility for free school meals could not only reduce the number of children facing food insecurity but remove the stigma felt by those who do receive them, researchers have said. A study by York University...
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National Deprivation of Liberty Court to deal with child cases
A national Deprivation of Liberty Court will deal with all new cases involving children, it has been announced. The new court, announced by Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division, will launch on 4 July...
A hostile environment baton passed from Theresa May to Priti Patel – and a decade of cruelty
From ‘Go home’ vans to Rwanda deportation flights, there has been a lot to learn, but we can’t and won’t succumb to despair Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens...
More than 1,000 children in care moved from their placement every week, research warns
Charities are warning that more than 1,000 looked-after children are moved on from their placement every week. Between 2018 and 2021 there were 220,210 changes to care placements, the equivalent of 1,059 changes each...
Launch of Future of Care study
The University of Oxford’s Rees Centre, at the Department of Education is partnering with Become, the national charity for children in care and young care leavers to define a new measurement of success for care leavers...
Unpaid carers changing the systems that trap them in poverty
Our society and the systems and services we have built do not value unpaid care work. In this blog, JRF outlines how we are working with people with lived experience of unpaid care work to develop policy recommendations...
Expand free school meals eligibility ‘to reduce stigma’, DfE urged
Widening eligibility for free school meals could not only reduce the number of children facing food insecurity but remove the stigma felt by those who do receive them, researchers have said. A study by York University...
Pandemic hit early education of disadvantaged children hardest, research finds
“Considerably more” children from ethnic minority and disadvantaged backgrounds have missed out on formal early learning during the Covid-19 pandemic compared with their peers, new research has found. The number of...
Sibling sexual abuse
The BBC has released a new File on 4 episode which focuses on sibling sexual abuse in the UK. The episode features families who have experienced this form of abuse and looks at the challenges they have faced. Listen to...
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