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Theresa Leavy says the county has a complex make up, combining rural areas, coastal communities and pockets of deep poverty. Picture: Patryk Kosmider /Adobe Stock

Best Practice 1 February 2022

Local Spotlight: Dorset Council

Support from the University of Sunderland’s We Care Team can be personalised to the unique requirements of every student

Best Practice 1 February 2022

Care-experienced students get bespoke support

Sammi Roberts: “With my work, you just never know where it will take you, and I love that”

Best Practice 1 February 2022

How I Got Here: Sammi Roberts, missing children’s case worker, Catch22

Care-experienced young people Lucy James and Sam Porter were co-hosts of the Culture Cares Conference

Best Practice 1 February 2022

Culture conference explores benefits of arts for care-experienced young people

More than 6,000 teenagers are living in unregulated accommodation, according to government figures. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 1 February 2022

#KeepCaringto18: Campaign for outright ban on unregulated accommodation heads to Downing Street

Waiting lists will be removed for uniformed youth groups under new plans. Picture: Scouts

News 1 February 2022

DCMS publishes further details of youth services support package

Ministers are encouraging more primary schools to take up the scheme. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 31 January 2022

Most schools and colleges offer free period products to students

Stoke-on-Trent's children's services were rated "inadequate" in 2019. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 31 January 2022

‘Discernible’ progress at Stoke children’s services, Ofsted says

The majority of children held on remand last year were acquitted, figures show. PIcture; Adobe Stock

News 28 January 2022

Most children held on remand do not receive custodial sentences, figures show

Anna McMorrin is shadow minister for victims and youth justice. Picture: Parliament UK

News 28 January 2022

Almost half of beds in secure children’s homes ‘unused’, says Labour

Pupil inclusion should be the 'central goal' of education, unions have said. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 28 January 2022

Education experts and unions call for school inclusion review

Guidance has been updated due to the rise in cases of Omicron reported in the UK. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 27 January 2022

Latest Covid-19 guidance for children’s social care, education, early years and youth work providers

Early years leaders have expressed concerns over a DfE funding clarifcation. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 27 January 2022

Early years funding significantly less than expected, sector fears

Staff shortages are caused by isolation due to testing positive for Covid-19. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 27 January 2022

Councils face huge children's social worker absences due to Covid

Keith Fraser has called for more support for 'black children to live crime-free lives'. Picture: YJB

News 27 January 2022

Youth justice system ‘failing’ to tackle disproportionality