Sustainable Services: Special Report
- Children's Services | Management | Service configuration | Education | Social Care | Youth Work
‘Eco anxiety’ among young people is rising prompting many to...
Education
In-depth
University challenge: help for care leavers
- Education | 16-19 learning | Social Care | Leaving care | Leaving Care
Care-experienced young people are significantly less likely...
Children & Young People Now Awards 2021 Shortlist
- Children's Services | Youth Work | Education | Early Years | Social Care | Youth Justice
The CYP Now Awards highlight the very best practice in work...
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...
Round-up: The holiday activities and food programmes taking place this summer
Just under three-quarters of secondary schools have signed...
Getting sexual health and relationships education right
- Education | Sexual health | PSHE Education
Ofsted has highlighted significant deficiencies in how...
Sexual Health and Relationships: Special Report
Schools will soon be required to teach pupils about sex and...
Legal Update: Issues SEND review must solve
- Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Education
Delayed government review must improve access to...
How tutors help pupils to progress
The National Tutoring Programme aims to counter the effects...
Interview: Natalie Perera - EPI chief on what education catch up plans need to include
- Education | Interview | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Derren Hayes speaks to the chief executive of the Education...
Digital simulation helps practitioners spot signs of abuse
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
NSPCC teams up with software provider to develop a computer...
From Crisis in the Early Years to a Fairer Start: Could We Close the School Readiness Gap By 2030?
- Early Years | Education
CYP Now joined forces with Nesta to discuss with leaders in...
CYP Now Awards: Winners revealed
- Early Years | Education | Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Youth Justice
Winners of the Children & Young People Now Awards 2020 were...
Coronavirus: Latest guidance for early years, schools, social workers, youth and youth justice services
- Coronavirus | Youth Work | Youth Justice | Social Care | Education | Early Years
The government has published its latest "roadmap" out of...
Standards in remote education: Inspections Clinic
Schools and colleges have used different approaches to...
How I Got Here: Tish Feilden
The psychotherapist and co-founder of charity Jamie’s Farm...
Getting the lowdown on fast-track training schemes
- Careers | Courses and training | Education | Social Care | Youth Justice
Recent years have seen a proliferation of fast-track and...
Commissioning: SEND provision in schools
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Management | Commissioning | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
School leaders and council commissioners must ensure they...
Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 1
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...
Special Report: Research: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence: Study 2
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is a charity...
Special Report: Practice: Outdoor Learning - Practice examples: Nursery transforms outdoor space to spark imagination
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
A £150,000 investment at a Staffordshire nursery has created...
Case Study 1 | England | Education - Scheme helps children read pre-primary school
Volunteer programme in early years settings offers...
Special Report: Practice: Outdoor Learning - Practice examples: The Valley Project helps children build a better future
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
The Valley Project based on the Holme Wood Estate in...
Special Report: Practice: Outdoor Learning - Practice examples: Samara Trust schools embrace outdoor learning ethos
- Early Years | Education | Outdoor Learning
A multi-academy trust in Cheshire is helping pupils to...
CYP Now launches #Chances4Children campaign
- Youth Work | Social Care | Youth Justice | Children's Services | Early Years | Education | Coronavirus | Chances4Children | Guide To...
CYP Now is today launching its #Chances4Children campaign to...
Coronavirus: Latest advice for schools, nurseries, children’s homes and social workers
The Prime Minister has revealed plans to begin easing...
Inspections Clinic: Behaviour in the classroom
The government has unveiled plans to tackle unruly behaviour...
School admissions framework: Legal update
The current primary school admissions process continues to...
Five inspection trends
- Ofsted | Early Years | Education | Social Care
Ofsted’s latest annual report highlights changes in...
Learning Through Play, USA
- Education | Early Years | Play | Early years education | Social Care | Attachment & Neglect | Play
Experiencing abuse or neglect can hinder the development of...
Making the case for personalised learning
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Academies/free schools
Personalised learning approaches, often using the latest...
Character Education: Special Report
- Education | PSHE Education
Policymakers, educators and children's professionals are...
Character Education: Policy context
At the recent Conservative annual conference, Culture...
Schools and knife crime: Inspections Clinic
Rising levels of youth violence have shone a light on what...
Restorative justice use in school
- Education | Youth Offending
A school's use of "restorative justice" to address a pupil's...
Speech and language: The 30 million word gap
- Early Years | Education | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
According to one influential piece of research,...
Teaching about sexual consent
- Education | Sexual health | PSHE Education
Early adolescents should be taught about sexual consent to...
Increased demand for EHC plans exacerbates SEND funding crisis
- Education | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
With funds lacking to meet families' expectations of special...
Statutory RSE: 5 key questions
- Education | PSHE Education
Expert outlines issues for school leaders when implementing...
Special Report: Apprenticeships
The government has a goal to create at least three million...
Factors for SEND funding crisis
- Education | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Research findings support local government calls for a...
Apprenticeships: Policy context
As part of a wider drive to improve the status of vocational...
Special Report: Narrowing the Attainment Gap
The gap between disadvantaged children and better-off peers...
Inspecting 'off-rolling'
- Education | Inspections
Ofsted has found evidence that a significant minority of...
Special Report: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
- Education | Special Educational Needs
Amid increasing funding pressures and demand, councils are...
Inspections Clinic: School careers guidance
- Education | Inspections
Following the launch of the government's Careers Strategy...
Vulnerable children bear brunt of school exclusion increases
- Education | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
An education select committee report concludes a factor in...
Legal Update: Education of looked-after children
Richard Oldershaw, team leader with the Child Law Advice...
Call to boost school counselling services
- Education | Mental health | Mental Health
Council leaders and professional organisations say mental...
Good Practice
London primary’s whole-school approach to sustainability
Introducing new compost bins, holding paper-free days,...
Benefits of literacy, US and Canada
Teacher Olivia Richards visited programmes in the US and...
Pupils get the right support to achieve more
- Education | Discipline and exclusions
Pupils receive a tailored programme of tutoring and...
Therapeutic approach gives SEND pupils bright future
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Suffolk special school nurtures the learning and life skills...
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...
How I Got Here: Clare Erasmus
- Education | Mental health | Mental Health
Teacher and director of mental health and wellbeing at...
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...
Inclusive education, Canada
- Disabled children and young people | Education | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Tara Flood visited New Brunswick in 2019 to observe how...
Whole-school approach brings down bullying
- Education | Discipline and exclusions | Mental Health
Anti-bullying initiative with a special focus on helping...
Support groups give siblings the time to shine
Brothers and sisters of children with special educational...
Parents get the skills to enhance at-home learning
- Education | Families/Parenting
Programme aims to improve children’s outcomes by boosting...
Sports opportunities for children with disabilities
Panathlon Challenge gives children and young people with...
System links council’s education and social care data
- Education | Social Care | Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Service configuration | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Visibility of children’s wider needs helps care and...
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...
Worcestershire County Council
- Leadership | Service configuration | Children's Services | Social Care | Education | Health
Long-time struggling West Midlands council is the latest to...
Pilot schools, Boston, USA: International Focus
Pilot schools are small education settings that specialise...
Young people learn to go green for a brighter future
- Education | Outdoor Learning
Project works to improve young people's wellbeing and help...
Bags of inspiration to improve literacy skills
- Education | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Storytelling initiative supports development of children's...
Folk High Schools, Sweden
- Education | Asylum | Residential Children's Care
In 2015, Sweden received 35,369 unaccompanied minors seeking...
Empowering children to take control of their online lives
- Education | Safeguarding in education | Mental Health
Free internet safety resource for pupils in Key Stage 2.
Programme builds resilience of children in transition from primary to secondary school
Children and young people learn how to become more resilient...
Specialist employment support for London care leavers
- Education | Leaving Care
Charity builds the confidence and personal skills of care...
An apprenticeship store for Stockport young people
Council-funded independent advice service is a one-stop-shop...
Steel city forges closer links with employers
Council programme brings apprenticeship-hungry young people...
Charity gives Kent young people's opportunities a lift
Twelve-week programme prepares disadvantaged young people...
Programme makes pre-schoolers champions at maths
Programme provides training to improve childcare...
Tower Hamlets harnesses power of collaboration
Collective ethos among Tower Hamlets' schools creates a...
Supporting reading literacy, Finland
- Education | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Globalisation and international migration have increased the...
Children in care buck attainment trend
Virtual head sets high expectations for looked-after...
Laying foundations for future attainment
Lottery-funded programme improves learning outcomes for...
SEND support for care leavers, Cornwall
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Leaving Care
Cornwall was the first area in England to introduce health...
Autism support centres, Essex
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Council establishes eight specialist centres in mainstream...
WIncKS, Warwickshire
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Council quality awards scheme recognises early years...
Pontville School, Lancashire
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Independent special school has developed a child-centred...
Children's maths skills receive a boost
Initiative enhances the knowledge, skills and confidence of...
How children learn through nature
- Education | Outdoor Learning
Project seeks to improve wellbeing and create a generation...
Electronic child record, Essex
- Education | Information sharing | Service configuration
Essex Council has introduced a system to store children and...
Reading to Learn, South Africa
The Progress in International Reading Literacy (Pirl) study...
School-Home Support
- Education | Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings
Practitioners work with families to address the root causes...
Peer educators scheme, Girlguiding
- Education | PSHE Education
Girlguiding has trained senior members to become peer...
How pupils learn to resist grooming
- Education | Safeguarding in education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Nine- to 12-year-olds develop the skills to resist grooming.
ABC (Awareness, Balance, Choice), Dhiverse
- Education | Sexual health | PSHE Education
Sexual health charity provides sex education for young...
Medway PSHE Project
- Education | PSHE Education
Medway public health has been working to improve PSHE across...
Colour theory behind learning
- Education | Mental health
The Kaleidoscope Programme builds pupils' confidence,...
Restorative Practice in Schools
Social enterprise Restorative Thinking Ltd was commissioned...
International Focus: Big Picture Learning, USA
Despite significant policy and funding focus over the past...
How pupils get empowered to tackle bullying
- Education | Safeguarding in education
Pupils are trained as mentors to support younger peers to...
The Mulberry Bush School
- Education | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care
Residential school that caters for troubled children has...
Research
Sexual health and relationships: Research evidence
Jonathan Baggaley, chief executive of the PSHE Association,...
Learning Inequalities During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The majority of children who did not attend school between...
How can we help young people with a social worker to thrive in education?
- Education | Academies/free schools | Safeguarding in education | Special Educational Needs
Doing well in school is among the strongest predictors of...
Leading Character Education in Schools
- Education | PSHE Education
In 2017, the National Federation for Educational Research...
Social Mobility, Chance or Choice?
- Education | PSHE Education
A sequel to Born to Fail? Social Mobility a Working Class...
Does Outsourcing School Systems Degrade Education Workforces?
This University of Oxford study aimed to find out whether...
The Educational Aspirations and Psychological Wellbeing of Adopted Young People
- Education | Fostering and adoption | Adoption
Local authorities in England and Wales have a legal duty to...
E-Safety: Screen Time
- Education | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health
Although the phrase "screen time" is not typically part of...
Best Friends Forever? Friendship Stability Across School Transition
- Education | Mental health
Researchers explore rates of friendship stability and...
Facilitating the Social Participation of Pupils With Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Schools: A Review of School Based Interventions
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
This systematic review (of 35 studies) investigated...
Barriers Facing Social Workers Undertaking Direct Work With Children and Young People With a Learning Disability Who Communicate Using Non-Verbal Methods
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
This study asks social workers to identify the barriers and...
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Reforms 2014: Sencos' Perspectives of the First Six Months
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
The research section for this special report is based on a...
Bullying - Evidence from Longitudinal Study of Young People in England: Cohort 2
- Education | Discipline and exclusions
More than 10,000 young people in year 11 were interviewed...
Disability Differentials in Educational Attainment in England
- Education | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Researchers from the University of Warwick and the London...
A Content Analysis of Youth Internet Safety Programmes: Are Effective Prevention Strategies Being Used?
- Education | Safeguarding and child protection | PSHE Education
This US study assesses the effectiveness of teaching...
PSHE Education: A Review of Impact and Effective Practice
- Education | PSHE Education
This government-commissioned review summarises findings from...
Effective Curriculum-Based Sex and STD/HIV Education Programmes for Adolescents
- Education | PSHE Education
This US study looks at how school-based sex and...
The Impact of Enhancing Students' Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions
- Education | PSHE Education
This paper reports on the first large-scale meta-analysis of...
Evaluation of the Elklan Talking Matters Programme
- Early Years | Education
Researchers from the University of Sheffield's department of...
The Relationship Between Exclusion from School and Mental Health
- Education | Mental Health
Researchers from the University of Exeter set out to examine...
Keeping Your Head: NfER Analysis of Head Teacher Retention
- Careers | Education | Leadership
An increasing number of teachers are leaving the profession...
Transition from care to college
- Education | Social Care | Leaving care
How the Higher Education Champions mentor support programme...
Research Report: Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes
- Education | Families/Parenting
Researchers wanted to examine how the amount of time mothers...
GW4 Children and Young People's Self-harm and Suicide Research Collaboration
The provision of self-harm prevention and intervention in...
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...
Special Report: Outdoor Learning - Research evidence
- Education | Extra-curricular | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning
These summaries of key research on outdoor learning have...
Research Report: Educational Psychology WorkforceSurvey 2013
- Education | Disabled children and young people | Mental health | Leadership
Authors: Yen Truong and Hilary Ellam
Pre-school Hyperactivity Problems and Educational Outcomes in Adolescence
Are young children with behavioural problems and ADHD at...
Research Report: Evaluation of the Pupil Premium
Researchers identify how schools support children on free...
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