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Dr Sam Parrett: “Non-attendance is becoming a pandemic in itself, which is too big an issue for schools themselves to deal with”

Opinion 19 October 2023

To tackle attendance, we must redefine it

Derren Hayes: "The average duration of care proceedings had crept up from the 26-week target to the mid-30s in early 2020, suggesting there is a fundamental system problem with delays"

Opinion 19 October 2023

Quicker care proceedings can give children certainty

Alison O’Sullivan, chair of National Children’s Bureau

Opinion 19 October 2023

Growing movement to protect care experience in law

Junior Smart, founder of SOS Project St Giles and director, Smart Training and Consultancy

Opinion 19 October 2023

Six reasons to support, not condemn, young people

Parents are facing more pressure to provide for their families amid the cost-of-living crisis. Picture: Adobe Stock/ kerkezz.

News 18 October 2023

More families using informal lenders amid high inflation

The John Lewis Partnership are working with care-experienced designers on Made With Care. Picture: The John Lewis Partnership.

News 18 October 2023

John Lewis Partnership launches range designed by care leavers

Pause works to support mothers who have previously had a child removed. Picture: Tanya Volkova/Adobe Stock

News 18 October 2023

Better support for ‘repeat removal’ families could reduce number of children in care, report finds

Become is calling for greater housing support for care leavers. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

News 18 October 2023

Homelessness among care leavers rises by a third over last five years

Blogs 18 October 2023

As an adult adoptee, I want to see children being put at the heart of adoption

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson speaks to former children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield at the Youth Zone. Picture: Sian Hopkins

News 18 October 2023

Labour Party Conference: How are we putting our children first?

Robin Walker: 'We maintain that there is a powerful case for reviewing the funding levels for childcare settings'. Picture: UK Parliament

News 18 October 2023

DfE rejects education committee recommendations to improve childcare

The tax relief is being put into place to allow care leavers to adjust to independent living. Picture: Adobe Stock/ Aksinia.

News 17 October 2023

Council confirms tax relief for care leavers

The EPI is calling for improved ways for schools to identify pupils living in persistent poverty. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

News 17 October 2023

DfE must publish plan to reduce post-pandemic disadvantage gap, say researchers

Anne Longfield will join Bite Back as chair of trustees. Picture: Commission on Young Lives

News 16 October 2023

Bite Back announces Anne Longfield as chair

Sir Andrew McFarlane is president of the family court.

News 16 October 2023

Courts no longer responsible for oversight of unregistered DoL placements, new guidance states