Julie Quinn: How I Got Here

• Health | Leadership

Director of care, Noah's Ark Hospice.

Health - Children's Workforce Qualifications and Training Guide

• Courses and training | Health

Health - Children's Workforce Qualifications and Training Guide

• Courses and training | Health

Social inequality and wellbeing

• Health | Mental Health

The "allostatic load" on children caused by chronic stress...

Guide to measure loneliness

• Health | Mental Health

Feeling lonely can harm children's wellbeing, so a new guide...

School mental health pilots

• Health | Mental Health

New school-based teams and practitioners aim to provide...

NHS Long Term Plan gives young people's mental health a boost

• Health | Mental Health

The government's 10-year vision for the NHS sets out key...

Immigration health surcharge

• Health | Children's rights | Legal

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs, examines...

Social media and mental health

• Health | Mental Health

Experts say review of children's social media use must...

Early years food: Nourishing growing minds and bodies

• Early Years | Health | Outdoor Learning

Childhood obesity continues to be a major problem across the...

Implications of RSE reforms

• Health | PSHE Education

New guidance sets out what should be taught in relationships...

Advice on using ACE enquiry

• Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Experts say more research is needed on impact of routine...

Help for children of alcoholics

• Health | Drugs and alcohol | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Councils should create drop-in centres to support children...

Tackling teenage pregnancies

• Health | PSHE Education

As national conception rates for girls under 18 fall, three...

Checks for looked-after children

• Mental Health | Health

Characteristics of mental health assessments for children in...

Experts look to public health model to tackle surge in youth knife crime

• Health | Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Offending

A public health approach to tackling violent crime has been...

Plan for closer school-CAMHS ties

• Education | Health | Mental health | Mental Health

Advocates of closer working between schools and mental...

Election 2017: Party Policy Guide

• Early Years | Education | Health | Child poverty | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Work

Neil Puffett has trawled the manifestos to provide the...

Caring for children with complex needs

• Health | Families/Parenting

WellChild nurses work in innovative ways to support children...

Legal Update: Visitor and migrant NHS charging

• Health | Children's rights | Asylum | Legal

Plans to extend the charging of overseas visitors and...

How to deliver better EHC plans

• Education | Special Educational Needs | Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's rights | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Council for Disabled Children guidance for local authorities...

Legal Update: NHS cost recovery proposals

• Health | Children's rights | Asylum | Legal

Patients may soon need to present identification to access...

Speaking up for talking therapies

• Health | Mental Health

Why the value of the government's talking therapies...

Lessons from serious case reviews: Paediatrics and A&E care

• Health | Safeguarding and child protection

The NSPCC has collated and analysed evidence from serious...

The policy context on Children's Mental Health

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Management | Mental Health

One in 10 five- to 16-year-olds have a diagnosable mental...

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the...

Key steps that will improve play services for disabled children

• Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Play

A charity has devised a blueprint for improved access to...

Skills for the Job: Discussing social media in PSHE

• Education | Health | Safeguarding and child protection | PSHE Education

Personal, social and health education lessons are ideal for...

Future in mind: the story so far

• Health | Management | Service configuration | Mental Health

The Future in Mind strategy promises wide-ranging...

Front of Mind

• Health | Early help | Service configuration | Mental Health

Increased political profile and a new care framework offer a...

Early intervention leaders' debate

• Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Early help | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work

Children's services leaders from councils across England...

Youth Work Sessions: Smoking cessation

• Health | Youth Work | Youth work resources

Before starting to facilitate any of these activities on...

Youth Work Sessions: Explore sexual health with young people

• Health | Sexual health | Youth Work | Youth work resources

Talking about sex, relationships and sexual health can be a...

Youth Work Sessions: How to encourage healthy eating

• Health | Youth Work | Youth work resources

Eating a healthy, balanced diet is important for everyone....

Challenges of 2012/13: The debate

• Early Years | Health | Children's Services | Management | Social Care

Senior local government figures thrashed out the challenges...

Children's Perspectives on Integrated Services: Every Child Matters in Policy and Practice

• Early Years | Education | Health | Social Care

Mary Kellett; Palgrave Macmillan; ISBN 9780230230392; 20.99;...

Skills for the Job: First aid training

• Careers | Courses and training | Health | Youth Work

First aid in youth work environments is crucial, as St John...

Skills for the Job: Eating disorders

• Careers | Health | Youth Work

Eating disorders affect people from all backgrounds. The...

Everybody's Business!: A Practical Resource for Including Disabled Children in Play, Childcare and Leisure Settings

• Early Years | Play | Health | Disabled children and young people

Edited by Rachel Scott and Alex Mills; Kids; ISBN...

Skills for the Job: Volatile substance abuse

• Careers | Health | Drugs and alcohol | Youth Work

Volatile substance abuse can cause sudden death. Stephen...

Skills for the Job: Teenage pregnancy

• Careers | Health | Youth Work

Youth professionals have a key role to play in helping to...

Careers Interview: Philippa Grace, senior educational psychologist, Education Bradford

• Education | Health

Philippa Grace has been a psychologist for 12 years and...

Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness

• Health | Mental health | Youth Work

Nick Luxmoore; Jessica Kingsley Publishers; 9781849051859;...

Careers Interview: Sunita Shah, clinical lead for speech and language therapy, Brent Community Paediatrics

• Health

Sunita Shah has been working as a speech and language...

Careers Interview: Nikki Smith, short breaks practitioner, Kids

• Health | Disabled children and young people

Twenty-one-year-old Nikki Smith has been working as a...

Step by Step Help for Children with ADHD: A Self-Help Manual for Parents

• Health

Cathy Laver-Bradbury, Margaret Thompson, Anne Weeks, David...

Interview: Naomi Douglas, children's centre health visitor, Community Health Oxfordshire

• Early Years | Health | Interview

Spending time in a Bolivian community where electricity was...

Interview: Andy Burnham, shadow education secretary

• Careers | Early Years | Education | Health | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Interview

Andy Burnham is still in migration phase, getting to grips...

Interview: Baroness Beverley Hughes, Labour peer

• Careers | Early Years | Education | Health | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Interview

Beverley Hughes, the former children's minister who was...

Advice on... Alcohol and sex

• Health | Youth Work

Young people are more likely to engage in risky sexual...

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...

Schwartz Rounds, United States

• Health

Schwartz Rounds are an approach that brings together staff...

App reduces young people's urge to self-harm

• Health | Mental Health

Calm Harm app helps children and young people manage the...

Helping children get a good night's sleep

• Health | Mental Health

Getting enough sleep is vital to children and young people's...

Child development early warning system, Andalucía, Spain

• Health | Children's Services | Preventing Care Proceedings

Geographically, Andalucía is a mix of popular coastal resort...

How game sparks healthy activities

• Health

Project improves health and wellbeing by getting young...

Games help pupils to eat healthily

• Health

Veggie Run teaches children to steer away from unhealthy...

Young people get on their bikes to succeed

• Health

Cycling initiative widens young people's aspirations and...

How clubs help families make healthy choices

• Health

Intensive community programme worked with children and...

Connecting Care

• Health | Safeguarding and child protection

Integrated digital care record system combines health and...

Right Here

• Mental Health | Health

Brighton and Hove project involves 'youth ambassadors'...

How horses help children to focus

• Health | Mental Health

Course improves emotional regulation and thinking skills for...

Lessons from Serious Case Reviews: Health professionals

• Health | Service configuration | Safeguarding and child protection

The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to...

Just Health

• Health | Mental health | Youth Justice | Participation | Youth Offending

Consultation gathered young people's views on what needs to...

How children develop their emotional literacy

• Education | Extra-curricular | Health

Programme brings parents and babies into the classroom to...

How pupils cope better with risk

• Extra-curricular | Health

Programme improves 12- to 13-year-olds' health and wellbeing...

How parents give their babies a warm welcome

• Health | Young parents | Families/Parenting

Training course helps parents improve attachment with their...

How mindfulness makes children more resilient

• Extra-curricular | Health

Sessions for children introduce them to mindfulness and...

Behind the Inspection Ratings: Holiday scheme standards

• Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Ofsted | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Revised inspections for residential holiday schemes for...

42nd Street

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services

Manchester-based charity that runs a wide range of...

Mulberry Bush Oxfordshire (MBOX) Teaching School

• Education | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Attachment & Neglect | Residential Children's Care

Works with education settings to adopt a "psychodynamic"...

AdCAMHS, East Sussex

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Therapeutic programme that supports adopted children and...

Neglect in early years can cause lasting brain damage

• Health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect | Foster Care

How neural frameworks that usually develop in young children...

How intervention reduces self-harm

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Early help

Project helps young people recover from self-harm and...

How LifeSkills helps deter children from alcohol and drug misuse

• Education | Extra-curricular | Health | Drugs and alcohol | Children's Services | PSHE Education

Project prevents drug and alcohol misuse among young people.

Ask the Experts: Accessing mental health funding

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Sexual health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on mental health services funding,...

Ask the Experts: Address suspicions over legal highs

• Early Years | Nurseries | Health | Drugs and alcohol | Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Commissioning | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work | Participation | Youth clubs

Our panel offers advice on the dangers of legal highs, child...

Behind the Inspection Rating: Structure change drives progress

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Service configuration | Ofsted | Social Care

Kingston upon Thames Council - children's services...

Skills for the Job: Ensure a good work-life balance

• Careers | Health | Children's Services | Management | Leadership

As pressures in children's services continue to rise, there...

How football helps tackle unhealthy lifestyles

• Education | Extra-curricular | Health

Project increases physical activity and healthy eating among...

Participation in Action: Young people go into the shadows to tackle depression

• Health | Mental health | Youth Work | Participation

A group of young people involved in a research study have...

Ask the Experts: Leading a service in the spotlight

• Education | Health | Children's Services | Management | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on DCS survival, nurturing interest...

How children challenge body image issues

• Education | Extra-curricular | Health | Public Health | Mental health | Youth Work | PSHE Education

Project reduces negative body image issues among primary...

Skills for the Job: How to run outdoor activities

• Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning

Making the outdoors an everyday experience, whether for...

How training helps improve mental health support

• Courses and training | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Management | Youth Work

Mental health project improves support for young people in...

Guide helps foster better awareness of pet benefits

• Health | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care

Following uncertainty by children's services into whether...

Ask The Experts: Nursery medicine, CSE concerns, council help for academies and youth film nights

• Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Management | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on drugs in nursery settings,...

How a proactive approach is successful in cutting teenage pregnancies

• Health | Sexual health | Children's Services

Project reduces the number of teenage pregnancies in Halton.

How informative DVD helps new parents cope with crying babies

• Health | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

DVD helps parents to cope with their baby's crying and...

Skills for the Job: Working with blind children

• Careers | Early Years | Play | Education | Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Understanding the impact of visual impairments can make a...

How service helps clients' families stay together

• Health | Drugs and alcohol | Families/Parenting | Social Care

A community approach to addressing adults' drug and alcohol...

Skills for the job: Working with autistic children

• Careers | Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Patience and consideration are qualities needed to work...

Ask the Experts: Risky sexual behaviour

• Health | Sexual health | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work

Good Idea: 'Baby brasseries' promote benefits of breastfeeding

• Health

An NHS trust in Bedfordshire has laid down foundations for...

Ask the Expert: Bad staff attitudes

• Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work

Ask the Expert: Appreciating animals

• Early Years | Education | Health | Management | Leadership | Youth Work | Outdoor learning

How streamlined diagnosis is slashing ADHD delays in Doncaster

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Early help

Children with ADHD in Doncaster are benefiting from improved...

Skills for the Job: Dealing with self-harm

• Careers | Health | Mental health | Youth Work

Being able to identify the warning signs that a young person...

How a pregnancy project is raising aspirations

• Health | Sexual health | Young parents

A scheme to reduce teenage pregnancy has succeeded beyond...

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Children's Exposure to Tobacco Retailing

• Health

Researchers examine how often children in disadvantaged...

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Children's Exposure to Tobacco Retailing

• Health

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

• Health

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

• Education | Safeguarding in education | Health | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health

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

• Health

Researchers examine whether, and how, a girl's social and...

Research Report: Evidence for Energy Conservation During Pubertal Growth

• Health

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

• Education | Health | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Are young children with behavioural problems and ADHD at...