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Research suggests that home-schooled children have reduced access to trusted adults. Picture: Gpointstudio/Adobe Stock

News 16 May 2024

Home schooling register could help protect children ‘kept away from wider society’

Age assessments left young people feeling suicidal in some cases, researchers find. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 16 May 2024

Age checks harming refugee children’s mental health, study warns

Catherine Beagley is chief executive of Drawing and Talking Therapy.

Features 16 May 2024

Drawing and Talking Therapy chief Catherine Beagley on using creativity to support young people with SEND

The funding will be used to provide more face-to-face support for children as young as eight. Picture: Adobe Stock/ Seventyfour

News 15 May 2024

Children’s Society to expand mental health services with £1mn award

The partnership will examine the impact of youth provision on children's mental health. Picture: NCS

News 15 May 2024

NCS partnership to define youth services impact on mental health

The document reveals the DfE's strategy to tackle profiteering in children's social care. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 15 May 2024

Birmingham Children’s Trust under fire over disclosing child's information

Clive Betts has criticised DfE over its 'refusal to engage' in an inquiry into child-friendly town planning. Picture: Parliament UK

News 15 May 2024

MP slams DfE’s ‘lack of engagement’ during child-friendly town inquiry

Agency social workers must be catergorised into five groups, DfE guidance says. Picture Adobe Stock

News 15 May 2024

Implementation of social work agency price caps delayed

Most children say they enjoy being active, says Samuel. Picture: Matimix/Adobe Stock

Blogs 14 May 2024

Step by step: Supporting youth mental health through physical activity

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was killed in June 2020. Picture: West Midlands Police/Family handout

News 14 May 2024

‘Critical opportunities’ missed to prevent Arthur Labinjo-Hughes death, review finds

Children's Commissioner for England Rachel de Souza called for government to listen to her young ambassadors, who she brought to the stage. Picture: Amrit Virdi

News 14 May 2024

Young people: 'We are begging next government to improve children's services'

Girls say a greater choice of activities would help them enjoy PE, according to new research. Picture: Studio You

News 14 May 2024

Girls twice as likely to opt out of PE lessons than boys, research finds

The award is being offered to a more diverse range of young people, the organisation's figures show. Picture: Duke of Edinburgh's Award

News 13 May 2024

Duke of Edinburgh's Award sees highest ever participation level

Jason Stevens is head of product for local government at Access HSC.

Blogs 13 May 2024

YJB’s new three-year strategy: The role of digital and risk of failure

Sector figures have questioned the success of the rollout of the funded childcare scheme. Picture: Adobe Stock/ Oksana Kuzmina

News 13 May 2024

Providers fear 'lack of nursery places' as funded childcare expansion applications open for nine-month-olds