9 January

DoL applications rise sharply in last months of 2024

Hannah Bentley Youth Justice

9 January

DfE becomes first government department to provide kinship carer leave

Joe Lepper Social Care

9 January

Consultation launches to tackle low numbers of suitably qualified youth workers

Joe Lepper Youth Work

8 January

Government’s early years funding hikes fail to cover rising costs, IFS warns

Joe Lepper Early Years

8 January

Social enterprise to take over running of London council’s three early years centres

Joe Lepper Early Years

8 January

Ofsted chief questions school safeguarding spot checks

Hannah Bentley Education

7 January

Cooper vows to make child abuse reporting mandatory

Derren Hayes Children's Services

6 January

High Court win for disabled asylum-seeking child housed in hotel room

Joanne Parkes Health

3 January

Care leavers missing out on home 'essentials', research finds

Derren Hayes Social Care

2 January

North Yorkshire DCS knighted in King's New Year Honours

Derren Hayes Children's Services

20 December 2024

From Sara Sharif's murder to first details of a new youth strategy: CYP Now’s most read stories of 2024

Joanne Parkes Social Care

19 December 2024

Children's palliative care campaigners welcome share of £126mn funding boost

Joanne Parkes Health

19 December 2024

Covid Inquiry to hear children’s personal accounts of loneliness and lost learning

Joe Lepper Education

19 December 2024

Councillors in Reading unanimously approve bringing children’s services back in-house

Joe Lepper

18 December 2024

Teenagers impacted by violence twice as likely to attend youth clubs, research finds

Joe Lepper Youth Work