The children and young people's sector enters 2023 awaiting ministerial responses to two major reports – the Independent Review of Children's Social Care and the government's SEND and alternative provision green paper – and the long-awaited opening of England's first secure academy.
Reeling from a year that saw five changes of Education Secretary and three changes of children's minister, the sector enters 2023 amid a deepening cost-of-living crisis and growing evidence on the long-term damage wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education, job opportunities, mental health and wellbeing.
As the sector faces a year of reform combined with major challenges, CYP Now looks at the key issues expected to arise across early years, education, health, social care, youth work and youth justice in 2023.
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