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Many parents found that sharing and engaging was easier from the family home. Picture: pingpao/Adobe Stock

24 November 2020

Parent support: lockdown lessons

Matt Buttery Early Years

Guidance aims to provide “clarity and consistency” for the understanding of councils’ duty to secure and support access to youth services. Picture: highwaystarz/Adobe Stock

27 October 2020

NYA guidance offers blueprint to revitalise youth work services

Derren Hayes Youth Work

The report recommends that local authorities should be compelled to pursue kinship care options for children as a “first port of call”. Picture: Apex

27 October 2020

Taskforce calls to prioritise kinship carers

Fiona Simpson Kinship care

Better data sharing has strategic value for all levels of government. Picture: Adobe Stock

27 October 2020

Routemap to improving council data to build better children’s services

Jonathan Bone Management

Many young people questioning their gender identity face significant barriers in accessing support, says Stonewall. Picture: nito/Adobe Stock

27 October 2020

Better gender identity support

Derren Hayes Health

Steve Chalke says secure school will be a joined-up service that will be “vision-led”. Picture: Oasis

27 October 2020

Oasis chief reveals school plans

Fiona Simpson Education

The white paper states that it is important that custodial sentences reflect the seriousness of offending. Picture: Peter Crane

27 October 2020

Plans to reform child sentences

Derren Hayes Youth Justice

Participants will be able to draw on coaching from voluntary youth sector leaders. Picture: ASDF/Adobe Stock

27 October 2020

Young leaders hone their skills

Derren Hayes Youth Work

The authors envisage a public and fully integrated early childhood education system. Picture: Oksana Kuzmina/Adobe Stock

27 October 2020

Rethink childcare amid pandemic

Peter Moss Early Years

29 September 2020

Coping with pandemic lockdowns

Derren Hayes Children's Services

The National Transfer Scheme sees councils take unaccompanied children into care.

29 September 2020

Rise in child refugees sparks calls for mandatory transfer scheme

Fiona Simpson Social Care

Projects funded through the Youth Investment Fund have achieved impressive satisfaction ratings from young participants.

29 September 2020

Study highlights beneficial impact of open access youth provision

Derren Hayes Youth Work

A third of parents say they have had difficulty accessing childcare since the easing of lockdown restrictions.

29 September 2020

Developing Covid-proof childcare services

Derren Hayes Early Years

New guidance for teachers puts mental health and wellbeing at the centre of school life.

29 September 2020

The good and bad of new school guidance on mental wellbeing

Pam Carpenter Education

Youth workers will be involved in catch-up schemes for disadvantaged young people to help them get ready to return to school in September

28 July 2020

Youth workers ‘magic touch’ can help transition back to school

Fiona Simpson Youth Work