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Research suggests that home-schooled children have reduced access to trusted adults. Picture: Gpointstudio/Adobe Stock
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Home schooling register could help protect children ‘kept away from wider society’

Education
Age assessments left young people feeling suicidal in some cases, researchers find. Picture: Adobe Stock
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Age checks harming refugee children’s mental health, study warns

Social Care
The document reveals the DfE's strategy to tackle profiteering in children's social care. Picture: Adobe Stock
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Birmingham Children’s Trust under fire over disclosing child's information

Children's Services
Clive Betts has criticised DfE over its 'refusal to engage' in an inquiry into child-friendly town planning. Picture: Parliament UK
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MP slams DfE’s ‘lack of engagement’ during child-friendly town inquiry

Children's Services
The pilot in the North West has a focus on providing assessment, consultation and therapeutic support for children and families. Picture: Adobe Stock
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Pilot launches to improve adoption support

Social Care
Teenagers interviewed described the transition to adult services as 'scary'. Picture: karelnoppe/Adobe Stock
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Support for SEND children turning 18 is ‘profoundly inadequate’, report warns

Health
Under the proposals staff already qualified at level 3 would be able to assess colleagues. Picture: Micromonkey/Adobe Stock
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‘Fundamental concerns’ emerge over early years training changes

Early Years
Abuse also includes images voluntarily shared by young people being reshared without their knowledge or consent. Picture: Brian/Adobe Stock
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Warning over 'terrifying' increase in abuse linked to nude image sharing

Children's Services
Access to enrichment opportunities is lower for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, researchers say. Picture: Xavier Lorenzo/Adobe Stock
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Call for ‘enrichment premium’ for disadvantaged pupils

Youth Work
Children wait longer to be placed permanently in London than elsewhere in England. Picture: Digital Skillet/Adobe Stock
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Councils urged to appoint early permanence experts to boost adoption rates

Social Care
DCS turnover rates are at the highest in six years, latest figures show. Picture: ijeab/Adobe Stock
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DCS turnover 'at highest level for six years'

Social Care
Four local authorities will trial the programmes. Picture: Adobe Stock
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Local authority parenting scheme pilot launches

Social Care