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Around 50,000 additional staff could be needed in 2024 to deliver plans for expanded childcare hours, researchers find. Picture: 1001 color/Adobe Stock

News 6 November 2023

Early years staffing crisis ‘major barrier’ to planned childcare expansion

The film highlights the importance of the role of youth workers. Picture: National Youth Agency

News 6 November 2023

Youth Work Week 2023: NYA film highlights positive impact of services

Record numbers of young people have contacted councils for support with homelessness, research finds. Picture: Searching for Sartori/Adobe Stock

News 6 November 2023

Record number of young people seeking homelessness support

The funding is designed to give kinship carers greater support. Picture: AdobeStock/ Halpfpoint

News 3 November 2023

Charity to deliver government-funded national kinship care training

Councils warn that 'an acute rise in the costs of placing children in care mean in-year spending on children’s services is spiralling out of control'. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 2 November 2023

Children’s services spending ‘spiralling out of control’, councils warn

The initiative is aimed at supporting young people who are unlikely to report crimes against them. Picture: C Fizkes/Adobe Stock

News 2 November 2023

Youth workers to be trained to support young victims of unreported crime

De Souza: 'It is my ambition that every child should be in school 100 per cent of the time.' Picture: Office of the Children's Commissioner for England

News 2 November 2023

Make data sharing on school attendance mandatory, children’s commissioner says

NCS's Gifford: 'We know schools would like to up their enrichment offer'. Picture: NCS Trust

News 1 November 2023

National Citizen Service partners with DoE for school activities pilot

Too many care-experienced young people in Devon live in unsuitable accommodation, according to Ofsted

News 1 November 2023

Ofsted calls for action over council's care leaver accommodation crisis

Experts will discuss how to best support pupils with visual and hearing problems in school. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

News 1 November 2023

Webinar to examine impact of vision and hearing problems on child development

The National Tutoring Programme is being used to help close the attainment gap. Picture: AdobeStockPicture: AdobeStock/ AntonioDiaz

News 31 October 2023

Success of National Tutoring Programme threatened by funding shortage

A significant proportion of child protection plans cite HSB as a factor. Picture: Photographee EU Adobestock

News 31 October 2023

CYP Now webinar will explore effective responses to HSB in children

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, visited Our GreenHut in Brixton which provides meals to children outside of school hours. Picture: Greater London Authority

News 30 October 2023

Mayor of London calls for action over child food poverty

EYFS reforms increased the focus on developing children's literacy skills. Picture: atikinka/AdobeStock

News 30 October 2023

Councils raise concerns over impact of EYFS reforms

Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground won the main prize at the London Play Awards. Picture: London Play

News 30 October 2023

Hackney project recognised in London Adventure Play Awards