Game over: the risks of children gambling
- Health | Mental health | Youth Work | Mental Health
Harmful gambling among children and young people is an...
Health
In-depth
Commissioning of therapies
- Commissioning | Management | Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Some children need therapeutic support that does not fit...
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...
Advice and resources to support young people’s mental health as schools return
- Health | Mental health
CYP Now looks at online resources to help parents and...
Northumberland gets schools up to speed in statutory RSHE
- Health | Sexual health | PSHE Education
Council develops new approach to training school staff in...
Sexual Health and Relationships: Special Report
Schools will soon be required to teach pupils about sex and...
Newcastle centre trains young people to deliver abuse awareness sessions
- Health | Sexual health | PSHE Education | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Peer educator programme developed after young people said...
How the government plans to tackle childhood obesity
- Health | Public Health
Campaigners are celebrating after the government vowed to...
Bereavement support for children with SEND, Denmark
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | PSHE Education | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Sarah Helton visited Denmark in 2018 as part of a study trip...
Children’s Mental Health Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Children’s mental health has long been characterised by long...
Enhanced trauma-informed approach helps practitioners build better relationships with homeless young people
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Homelessness charity in West Midlands uses...
Recipe for beating childhood obesity
Obesity is one of the biggest long-term health challenges....
Islington Council trains workforce in trauma-informed practice to improve outcomes for vulnerable children
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health
Islington Council has implemented trauma-informed practice...
Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings | Youth Offending | Leaving Care | Adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative...
How Covid-19 remade children’s services
- Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Outdoor Learning
A year on from the emergence of the coronavirus and onset of...
How I Got Here: Tish Feilden
The psychotherapist and co-founder of charity Jamie’s Farm...
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Special Report
- Children's Services | Early help | Health | Mental health | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings
Research has shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)...
Sefton’s trauma-informed approach helps families to recover from ACEs
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Families/Parenting
Sefton Council rolls out its adverse childhood experiences...
Therapeutic Care: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption
With rises in children coming into care and reporting mental...
Why we changed careers to work with children
- Careers | Early Years | Children's Services | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Health | Health visiting | Management | Leadership
Many children’s and youth services are experiencing staffing...
Interview: Kate Collins, chief executive, The Teenage Cancer Trust
- Health | Palliative care | Mental health | Leadership | Interview
The chief executive of The Teenage Cancer Trust speaks to...
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...
Helping children get a good night's sleep
- Health | Mental Health
Getting enough sleep is vital to children and young people's...
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
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
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
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
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
Personal, social and health education lessons are ideal for...
Good Practice
Benefits of literacy, US and Canada
Teacher Olivia Richards visited programmes in the US and...
How mental health support finds its place in schools
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Charity Place2Be provides schools with clinicians who take a...
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...
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...
Scheme empowers deaf young people to create projects that make a difference
- Participation | Youth Work | Health | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Charity funds youth-led projects that boost young people’s...
Social prescribing service boosts mental health of Sheffield young people
- Mental health | Health | Mental Health
Sheffield Futures’ social prescribing model offers early...
Youth group develops child-friendly Covid-19 guide to inform younger patients
- Health | Youth Work | Participation | Coronavirus
Guide developed by young people provides facts about the...
Support groups give siblings the time to shine
Brothers and sisters of children with special educational...
Sports opportunities for children with disabilities
Panathlon Challenge gives children and young people with...
Play helps children learn to be Healthy Movers
- Early Years | Health | Early years education | Mental Health
Early years healthy living programme promotes children’s...
Tech solutions help young people overcome anxieties
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health
The Children’s Society is using virtual reality with...
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...
Agency helps children develop more secure attachments
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Adoption
“Outstanding”-rated adoption agency Family Futures provides...
NHS specialists and secure setting staff create therapeutic environment to address complex issues
- Health | Mental health | Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Mental Health | Youth Offending
Secure Stairs has been delivering practical solutions to...
How peer support helps children cope better with grief
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Mental Health
Weekly sessions of peer support give children and families a...
Art therapy helps girls affected by youth violence
- Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health
A south London-based project is using creative expression as...
Workshops on healthy LGBTQ+ relationships
- PSHE Education | Extra-curricular | Health | Sexual health | Youth Work
Intervention informs LGBTQ+ young people about healthy...
Early years oral health programmes – three top tips
- Early Years | Health
Revisions to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)...
How music mentors instil confidence in young people
- Youth Work | Extra-curricular | Health | Mental health | Participation
One-to-one music-making sessions improve the wellbeing of...
FASD treatment, Canada: International Focus
- Health | Drugs and alcohol | Young parents
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) describes a range of...
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...
App reduces young people's urge to self-harm
- Health | Mental Health
Calm Harm app helps children and young people manage the...
Child development early warning system, Andalucía, Spain
- Health | Children's Services | Preventing Care Proceedings
Geographically, Andalucía is a mix of popular coastal resort...
Games help pupils to eat healthily
Veggie Run teaches children to steer away from unhealthy...
Young people get on their bikes to succeed
Cycling initiative widens young people's aspirations and...
How clubs help families make healthy choices
Intensive community programme worked with children and...
Connecting Care
- Health | Safeguarding and child protection
Integrated digital care record system combines health and...
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
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
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
Project increases physical activity and healthy eating among...
Research
Impact of Cuts to Spending on Children’s Centres on Childhood Obesity
When government-funded Sure Start children’s centres...
Sexual health and relationships: Research evidence
Jonathan Baggaley, chief executive of the PSHE Association,...
Association of Race/Ethnicity and Social Disadvantage with Autism Prevalence
- Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Health | Disabled children and young people
Autism spectrum disorder is characterised by communication...
Overshadowed: The Mental Health Needs of Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Disabled children and young people
It is estimated that around 1.2 million people in England...
A Review of Recent Evidence into Children and Young People’s Mental Health
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
This document seeks to piece together the evidence about...
Mental Health for All? The Final Report of the Commission for Equality in Mental Health
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
The Commission for Equality in Mental Health was set up in...
Substance Use and Antisocial Behaviour in Adolescence
- Health | Drugs and alcohol | Youth Offending
Researchers from University College London’s Centre for...
Protecting the psychological health of children through effective communication about COVID-19
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Coronavirus
In this brief commentary, Dalton and colleagues set out the...
History of childhood maltreatment is associated with reduced fractional anisotropy of the accumbofrontal ‘reward’ tract in healthy adults
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Several studies have shown that childhood maltreatment is...
Practitioner Review: Twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores – Advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Mental Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
In their practitioner review, Lacey and Minnis consider the...
Screen Use, Lifestyle Behaviours and Psychosocial Health in Adolescent Females
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Researchers at the University of Leicester wanted to measure...
Agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood victimization: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Health | Mental health | Social Care
Researchers set out to investigate the accuracy of adult...
Adolescent victimization and early-adult psychopathology: Approaching causal inference using a longitudinal twin study to rule out non-causal explanations
- Social Care | Health | Mental health
Researchers from King’s College London used data gathered...
ICT-Supported Social Work Interventions with Youth: A Critical Review
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption
This study conducted a systematic review of information and...
Between Love and Behaviour Management: the Psychodynamic Reflective Milieu at the Mulberry Bush School
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Residential Children's Care
A study on the Mulberry Bush School conveys direct work and...
Child, Caregiver, and Therapist Perspectives on Therapeutic Alliance in Usual Care Child Psychotherapy
- Social Care | Health | Mental health | Families/Parenting | Mental Health | Preventing Care Proceedings
The primary aim of this exploratory study was to examine the...
Evaluation of Right Here: A Young People’s Mental Health Initiative of the Paul Hamlyn and Mental Health Foundations
- Youth Work | Mental Health | Health | Mental health
The increase in young people suffering poor mental health...
Personalising the Health Impacts of Air Pollution – Summary for Decision Makers
Researchers from King’s College London wanted to examine the...
Gambling Behaviours and their Associations with Socio-emotional Harm
- Health | Mental Health | PSHE Education
Researchers from Cardiff University wanted to find out what...
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Children's Exposure to Tobacco Retailing
Researchers examine how often children in disadvantaged...
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Children's Exposure to Tobacco Retailing
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
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
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
Researchers examine whether, and how, a girl's social and...
Research Report: Evidence for Energy Conservation During Pubertal Growth
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
Are young children with behavioural problems and ADHD at...
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