Mermaids’ chief Lauren Stoner on the future of the charity and LGBTQ+ inclusivity
- Education | Youth Work | Health | Guide To...
LGBTQ+ charity Mermaids is moving forward after an...
Health
In-depth
The service that’s helping children feel less alone
- Children's Services | Health
The NSPCC’s new Building Connections service aims to support...
Halting the rise in eating disorders
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
There has been a sharp increase in the number of children...
8 top tips to support young people with eating disorders
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
If you’re a frontline children’s services professional, you...
Inspections Clinic: Homes for Disabled Children
- Health | Disabled children and young people | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Residential Children's Care
Recommendations from a review of residential provision for...
Online Safety Bill: What's included and the impact on children
- Health | Youth Work | Guide To...
A guide to the recently passed Online Safety Bill.
Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training 2023/24
- Careers | Courses and training | Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Management | Ofsted | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work
With many parts of the sector facing recruitment challenges,...
Inspections Clinic: New SEND inspections
Provision for children and young people with special...
How to repair damage caused by the pandemic to children’s development?
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Health | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
As teachers report a sharp rise in pupils struggling with...
Vaping: 5 key questions about children vaping
- Health | Guide To...
A raft of recent reports and studies on the rise of vaping...
Mental Health in Schools: Special Report
With a growing number of children and young people facing...
The case for daily wellbeing lessons in schools
Nadim Saad talks to CYP Now about the importance of...
Interview: Lisa Harker, director, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
- Health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Mental Health | Interview
Derren Hayes speaks to the director of the Nuffield Family...
Riding the wave of social prescribing
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Social prescribing is increasingly being offered to children...
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Special Report
- Special Educational Needs | Health | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
As the government plans to reform the special educational...
Interview: Education select committee chair Robin Walker MP
Fiona Simpson speaks to the Conservative MP and education...
How to offer trauma-informed mental health support to young people
With the increase of children and young people arriving at...
Therapeutic Care Special Report
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Fostering and adoption
With a post-pandemic surge in demand for mental health and...
What is Scotland’s gender recognition reform bill, and why is Westminster blocking it?
The UK government has announced it is blocking Scotland’s...
Legal Update: Mental health detention
Lauren Morling and Sihana Bina of Coram International set...
Projects to support vulnerable children at Christmas
As the cost of living continues to rise, food banks and...
Special report: Social, emotional and mental health needs
A fresh focus on social, emotional and mental health needs...
Government policy briefs for children and young people
- Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Education | Early Years | Health | Guide To...
CYP Now lays out the responsibilities of ministers...
Supporting children’s mental health in school
Charity Place2Be works with schools to develop counselling...
Inspections Clinic: Residential holiday schemes
- Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Ofsted | Education | Special Educational Needs | Health | Disabled children and young people
Following providers’ criticism, Ofsted has amended the...
International Focus: Perinatal care, Australia
- Health | Young parents | Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect
The cost to the UK of perinatal mental health difficulties...
Working with deaf children: key resources and training for professionals
Professionals working with disadvantaged children can access...
Therapeutic Communities: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care
There has been a recent rise in interest from policymakers...
Game over: the risks of children gambling
- Health | Mental health | Youth Work | Mental Health
Harmful gambling among children and young people is an...
Commissioning of therapies
- Commissioning | Management | Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Some children need therapeutic support that does not fit...
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Special Report
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Health | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Recent years have seen a significant rise in the proportion...
Northumberland gets schools up to speed in statutory RSHE
- Health | Sexual health | PSHE Education
Council develops new approach to training school staff in...
Sexual Health and Relationships: Special Report
Schools will soon be required to teach pupils about sex and...
Newcastle centre trains young people to deliver abuse awareness sessions
- Health | Sexual health | PSHE Education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Peer educator programme developed after young people said...
How the government plans to tackle childhood obesity
- Health | Public Health
Campaigners are celebrating after the government vowed to...
Bereavement support for children with SEND, Denmark
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | PSHE Education | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Sarah Helton visited Denmark in 2018 as part of a study trip...
Children’s Mental Health Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Children’s mental health has long been characterised by long...
Enhanced trauma-informed approach helps practitioners build better relationships with homeless young people
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Homelessness charity in West Midlands uses...
Recipe for beating childhood obesity
Obesity is one of the biggest long-term health challenges....
Islington Council trains workforce in trauma-informed practice to improve outcomes for vulnerable children
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health
Islington Council has implemented trauma-informed practice...
Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings | Youth Offending | Leaving Care | Adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative...
How Covid-19 remade children’s services
- Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Outdoor Learning
A year on from the emergence of the coronavirus and onset of...
How I Got Here: Tish Feilden
The psychotherapist and co-founder of charity Jamie’s Farm...
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Special Report
- Children's Services | Early help | Health | Mental health | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings
Research has shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)...
Sefton’s trauma-informed approach helps families to recover from ACEs
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Families/Parenting
Sefton Council rolls out its adverse childhood experiences...
Therapeutic Care: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption
With rises in children coming into care and reporting mental...
Why we changed careers to work with children
- Careers | Early Years | Children's Services | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Health | Health visiting | Management | Leadership
Many children’s and youth services are experiencing staffing...
Interview: Kate Collins, chief executive, The Teenage Cancer Trust
- Health | Palliative care | Mental health | Leadership | Interview
The chief executive of The Teenage Cancer Trust speaks to...
Good Practice
Rowing boosts mental health and expands skills
Active Row London sees young people from all backgrounds...
Empathetic practice, North America
CYP Now has teamed up with the Churchill Fellowship to...
Arts projects bring young people wellbeing boost
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Youth Work
Post-pandemic initiative aims to improve community health...
Youth ambassadors make case for better epilepsy healthcare and education services
- Health | Youth Work | Participation
Charity has been accredited by Hear By Right for actively...
Blackpool helps children with additional needs
- Youth Work | Health | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Group-based activities focusing on developing social and...
Maternity care for migrants, Sweden
- Health | Young parents | Public Health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting
CYP Now has teamed up with the Churchill Fellowship to...
How I Got Here: Lorraine Beddard, clinical liaison nurse
- Health | Palliative care
Teenage and young adult clinical liaison nurse Lorraine...
Young people's lived experiences shape Scottish suicide prevention strategy
- Youth Work | Participation | Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Young people with lived experiences of mental health...
Thrive improves behaviour and attainment
Primary in Dagenham trains its staff to deliver Thrive...
Training makes teachers ‘trusted adults’
Cornwall's HeadStart Kernow rolled out an intensive training...
Specialist team supports students' emerging mental health needs
Brighter Futures for Children's Mental Health Support Team...
Young people co-produce mental health directory
- Health | Mental health | Youth Work | Participation | Mental Health
Youth ambassadors collaborate with service providers on...
How classroom storytelling sessions target emotions
Creative Classrooms gives children and teachers the...
How football sessions tackle mental health stigma
- Youth Work | Health | Mental health
Group therapy harnesses the power of sport to engage with...
Champions of children’s health and wellbeing
- Health | Early years education | Public Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Courses and training
Training empowers practitioners to lead change in early...
Suicide bereavement support, Denmark
- Health | Mental health | Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Mental Health
Anna Wardley visited Denmark to speak to leading experts and...
How I Got Here: Scott Roberts, home support worker, Barnardo’s
- Children's Services | Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's rights | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Scott Roberts, home support worker, Barnardo’s Brighton and...
Psychologists help youth club support young men affected by offending
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Trained psychologists were based at a youth club in Haringey...
How I Got Here: Kerry Kernan, Guide Dogs UK
- Health | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Kerry Kernan, national operations manager of children &...
Young people get quick mental health support
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Free service offers young people one-to-one and group...
How I Got Here: Wendy Minhinnett, Charlie Waller Trust
- Mental health | Health
Wendy Minhinnett, parent/carer lived experience lead at the...
Benefits of literacy, US and Canada
Teacher Olivia Richards visited programmes in the US and...
How mental health support finds its place in schools
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Charity Place2Be provides schools with clinicians who take a...
Service restructure helps Buckinghamshire Council slow rise in SEND cases
- Special Educational Needs | Education | Health | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Revamp of SEND services improves assessment and early...
Transition support for students with disabilities
- Social Care | Health | Disabled children and young people | Education | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Transitions Service gives support to students on career and...
Scheme empowers deaf young people to create projects that make a difference
- Participation | Youth Work | Health | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Charity funds youth-led projects that boost young people’s...
Social prescribing service boosts mental health of Sheffield young people
- Mental health | Health | Mental Health
Sheffield Futures’ social prescribing model offers early...
Youth group develops child-friendly Covid-19 guide to inform younger patients
- Health | Youth Work | Participation | Coronavirus
Guide developed by young people provides facts about the...
Support groups give siblings the time to shine
Brothers and sisters of children with special educational...
Sports opportunities for children with disabilities
Panathlon Challenge gives children and young people with...
Play helps children learn to be Healthy Movers
- Early Years | Health | Early years education | Mental Health
Early years healthy living programme promotes children’s...
Tech solutions help young people overcome anxieties
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health
The Children’s Society is using virtual reality with...
Disaster-based trauma support, Australia
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Education | Safeguarding in education | Mental Health
The rugged, remote and inhospitable nature of much of the...
Agency helps children develop more secure attachments
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Adoption
“Outstanding”-rated adoption agency Family Futures provides...
NHS specialists and secure setting staff create therapeutic environment to address complex issues
- Health | Mental health | Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Mental Health | Youth Offending
Secure Stairs has been delivering practical solutions to...
How peer support helps children cope better with grief
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Mental Health
Weekly sessions of peer support give children and families a...
Art therapy helps girls affected by youth violence
- Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health
A south London-based project is using creative expression as...
Workshops on healthy LGBTQ+ relationships
- PSHE Education | Extra-curricular | Health | Sexual health | Youth Work
Intervention informs LGBTQ+ young people about healthy...
Early years oral health programmes – three top tips
- Early Years | Health
Revisions to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)...
How music mentors instil confidence in young people
- Youth Work | Extra-curricular | Health | Mental health | Participation
One-to-one music-making sessions improve the wellbeing of...
FASD treatment, Canada: International Focus
- Health | Drugs and alcohol | Young parents
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) describes a range of...
Worcestershire County Council
- Leadership | Service configuration | Children's Services | Social Care | Education | Health
Long-time struggling West Midlands council is the latest to...
Young ambassadors scheme opens up opportunities for careers in care
- Health | Participation
Young people learn about palliative care and provide...
App reduces young people's urge to self-harm
- Health | Mental Health
Calm Harm app helps children and young people manage the...
Child development early warning system, Andalucía, Spain
- Health | Children's Services | Preventing Care Proceedings
Geographically, Andalucía is a mix of popular coastal resort...
Games help pupils to eat healthily
Veggie Run teaches children to steer away from unhealthy...
Young people get on their bikes to succeed
Cycling initiative widens young people's aspirations and...
How clubs help families make healthy choices
Intensive community programme worked with children and...
Research
Additional Family Costs for Children on the Autism Spectrum
Children on the autism spectrum and their families face high...
Trends in Eating Disorder and Self-harm Incidence Rates Since Covid-19
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Researchers from Keele University, the University of...
Adverse outcomes in adolescence following early childhood disadvantage
Disadvantage in early childhood – 0 to 5 years old – is...
Can the physical environment of residential children's homes make them feel more therapeutic? Recommendations from a rapid evidence assessment
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care
Exploring the factors within the physical environment that...
Creative Life Story Work strengthens care relationships
- Social Care | Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Evaluation of a creative, relational approach to life story...
Impact of Covid-19 on emergency department attendances for young people
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Researchers from the University of Southampton wanted to...
Trends in Weight Loss Attempts Among Children in England
- Health | Mental Health
More than a third of UK children are overweight or obese....
Parenting recovery programme tackles child trauma
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care
Study assesses how children’s home provider uses...
Impact of Cuts to Spending on Children’s Centres on Childhood Obesity
When government-funded Sure Start children’s centres...
Sexual health and relationships: Research evidence
Jonathan Baggaley, chief executive of the PSHE Association,...
Association of Race/Ethnicity and Social Disadvantage with Autism Prevalence
- Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Health | Disabled children and young people
Autism spectrum disorder is characterised by communication...
Overshadowed: The Mental Health Needs of Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Disabled children and young people
It is estimated that around 1.2 million people in England...
A Review of Recent Evidence into Children and Young People’s Mental Health
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
This document seeks to piece together the evidence about...
Mental Health for All? The Final Report of the Commission for Equality in Mental Health
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
The Commission for Equality in Mental Health was set up in...
Substance Use and Antisocial Behaviour in Adolescence
- Health | Drugs and alcohol | Youth Offending
Researchers from University College London’s Centre for...
Protecting the psychological health of children through effective communication about COVID-19
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Coronavirus
In this brief commentary, Dalton and colleagues set out the...
History of childhood maltreatment is associated with reduced fractional anisotropy of the accumbofrontal ‘reward’ tract in healthy adults
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Several studies have shown that childhood maltreatment is...
Practitioner Review: Twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores – Advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Mental Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
In their practitioner review, Lacey and Minnis consider the...
Screen Use, Lifestyle Behaviours and Psychosocial Health in Adolescent Females
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Researchers at the University of Leicester wanted to measure...
Agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood victimization: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Health | Mental health | Social Care
Researchers set out to investigate the accuracy of adult...
Adolescent victimization and early-adult psychopathology: Approaching causal inference using a longitudinal twin study to rule out non-causal explanations
- Social Care | Health | Mental health
Researchers from King’s College London used data gathered...
ICT-Supported Social Work Interventions with Youth: A Critical Review
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption
This study conducted a systematic review of information and...
Between Love and Behaviour Management: the Psychodynamic Reflective Milieu at the Mulberry Bush School
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Residential Children's Care
A study on the Mulberry Bush School conveys direct work and...
Child, Caregiver, and Therapist Perspectives on Therapeutic Alliance in Usual Care Child Psychotherapy
- Social Care | Health | Mental health | Families/Parenting | Mental Health | Preventing Care Proceedings
The primary aim of this exploratory study was to examine the...
Evaluation of Right Here: A Young People’s Mental Health Initiative of the Paul Hamlyn and Mental Health Foundations
- Youth Work | Mental Health | Health | Mental health
The increase in young people suffering poor mental health...
Personalising the Health Impacts of Air Pollution – Summary for Decision Makers
Researchers from King’s College London wanted to examine the...
Gambling Behaviours and their Associations with Socio-emotional Harm
- Health | Mental Health | PSHE Education
Researchers from Cardiff University wanted to find out what...
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Children's Exposure to Tobacco Retailing
Researchers examine how often children in disadvantaged...
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Children's Exposure to Tobacco Retailing
Researchers examine how often children in disadvantaged...
Children's Health and Development: Approaches to Early Identification and Intervention
- Health | Early help | Preventing Care Proceedings
This article summarises the evidence around effective...
Youth Drinking in Decline
- Health | Drugs and alcohol
The University of Sheffield's Alcohol Research Group is part...
Parents' Experiences of Early Care and Education for Children Born Prematurely
- Early Years | Health
The number of babies born prematurely has increased in the...
Term, Singleton, Intrapartum Stillbirth and Intrapartum-related Neonatal Death
- Health | Families/Parenting
Researchers aimed to identify potentially preventable...
State of Child Health Report 2017
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health wanted to...
Patient Safety Incidents Involving Sick Children in Primary Care
- Health | Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection
Researchers examine to what extent harm caused by medical...
GW4 Children and Young People's Self-harm and Suicide Research Collaboration
The provision of self-harm prevention and intervention in...
Parent-mediated Social Communication Therapy for Young Children with Autism
- Health | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disorder that...
Research Report: Early Puberty in 11-year-old Girls: Millennium Cohort Study Findings
Researchers examine whether, and how, a girl's social and...
Research Report: Evidence for Energy Conservation During Pubertal Growth
Children are particularly susceptible to weight gain at two...
Suicide by Children and Young People in England
- Health | Children's Services | Information sharing | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health
Researchers examine whether specific experiences such as...
Survey of Schools' Work with Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Education | Extra-curricular | Health | Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Service configuration | Mental Health
A research team led by University College London and the...
Factors Affecting Age at Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in UK
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
A number of initiatives have aimed to increase early...
Youth Mental Health: New Economic Evidence
- Health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Leadership | Service configuration | Mental Health
Study of the economic impact of youth mental health services...
Special Report: Attachment and Neglect - Research Evidence
- Early Years | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect
Pre-school Hyperactivity Problems and Educational Outcomes in Adolescence
Are young children with behavioural problems and ADHD at...
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