Daily roundup 6 October: Care leavers, temporary accommodation and tablets

The charity Who Cares? Trust has launched a website to help tackle the low number of care leavers attending university or higher education courses at college. The trust says that the website, Propel, will give information to care leavers – one in 20 of whom currently go on to higher education – on their options.


?Housing young people in bed and breakfast accommodation alongside released offenders is putting children in danger and needs to be ended, according to Welsh charity End Youth Homelessness Cymru. The Mirror reports that the organisation is concerned that homeless children often share accommodation with adults who have recently left prison, potentially placing them at risk of exploitation and abuse, according to the campaign.


One in three pre-school children in the UK have their own iPad or tablet device. The Guardian reports that children use the devices for an average of one hour and 19 minutes a day on average, often without parental supervision.


The NSPCC has criticised a judge who decided not to imprison a 21-year-old babysitter who admitted sexual activity with an 11-year-old boy. The Guardian reports Jade Hatt, who committed the offence aged 20 in November 2014, was given a suspended jail term for the offence.


Healthy eating regimes and toothbrushing clubs have been launched in 10 special support schools across Sheffield. The Yorkshire Post reports the idea by Sheffield City Council, in partnership with Public Health England and the NHS, aims to improve oral health at all of the schools.


West Berkshire Council has launched a consultation on proposals to introduce mandatory child sexual exploitation training for taxi drivers. Get Reading reports taxi drivers across West Berkshire would also have to attend compulsory safe transportation in wheelchairs training and disability awareness training.