Latest news
- Voluntary sector consortium becomes DfE strategic partner
- Daily roundup: Carrie quits, childcare savings, and Devon criticism
- Sex education must cover porn, says children’s commissioner
- Damning report calls for safeguarding improvements in Rochdale
- Associations criticise care placement decision making
- Youth work wins backing for role in schools
- Oakhill STC inspection raises safeguarding concerns
- Councils rise to minister's challenge on care leaver support
- Birth registration could be ‘game changer’ for children's centres, says MP
- Free schools for children with complex problems gain approval
- NDNA and DfE to trial early years ratios
- Students fail to engage with university counselling services
- Girls in gangs ‘face greater mental health risks’
- Sports funding boost for London youth clubs
- Parents back schools to teach about dangers of online porn
- Fundraising skills added to youth work degree syllabus
- Howard League attacks scale of child DNA swabs
- Minister announces foster care support for councils
- Fast-track social work programme to recruit top graduates
- Pacey retreats from childminder training project
News Analysis
Transforming youth custody: sector feeds into vision for radical reform
Responses to the youth custody green paper indicate broad support for the government’s aim to create a more therapeutic secure estate, but with notes of caution on efforts to raise the educational attainment of offenders.
Professionals prepare to cut delays as 26-week care case limit looms
Local authorities, family lawyers and the court system are gearing up to confront radical changes to the care proceedings system in a bid to ensure the majority of children can be found a home within six months.
Policing priorities for children revealed
In her first interview as police lead for children and young people, Jacqui Cheer outlines her new youth strategy.
Columnists & Comment
Youth workers could be the missing link in PSHE
Youth work and schools make strange bedfellows. The very essence of youth work as voluntary and non-formal is certainly at odds with the formal, compulsory nature of school.
Social media will let tomorrow’s leaders bridge north-south divide
This month, shuttling between the north-east and the south-east of England, I have been struck by some of the massive variations in the experiences of children and young people in different parts of the country, and how this impacts upon national debates about future policy....
Ditch ‘bedroom tax’ to save more children from poverty
I have a sense of déjà vu with regard to the benefit reforms. It reminds me of the last period of austerity in the 1980s. Here we are again, cutting back services and this time demonising the poorest in society and imposing benefit cuts on them.
