Daily roundup 16 June: Child refugees, hospital harm, and sport participation
Adam Offord
Thursday, June 16, 2016
A UN report finds child refugees are being exposed to violence in French camps; doctors warn funding wrangles are putting babies and mothers at risk; and more young people take part in sport since 2012, all in the news today.
Child refugees stuck in camps in northern France are being forced to have sex with traffickers in return for the promise of passage to Britain, a UN report has warned. The Daily Mail reports the study found 500 unaccompanied minors are being exposed to violence on a daily basis in seven coastal refugee camps.?
Babies are dying and mothers and unborn children are being put at risk because of wrangles over NHS funding, doctors have warned. The Telegraph reports a leaked letter from seven hospital consultants at specialist units highlighted "multiple cases" across the country where babies and women have been subject to "avoidable harm" as a result of a new funding system.?
The number of young people between the age of 16 and 25 playing sport has increased since the London 2012 Olympics, data has revealed. The BBC reports figures from Sport England show 3.8m young people are now taking part in sport - a rise of 1.4 per cent. By comparison, the number of adults taking part in sport has fallen over the past four years.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of child maintenance arrears owed to children are failing to be collected by the government, a report has revealed. The Missing Maintenance report by single parent charity Gingerbread found almost £4bn of unpaid maintenance arrears have accumulated over the 23-year lifespan of the Child Support Agency, which is due to be replaced by the Child Maintenance Service.
More than 100 failing academies have been removed from their sponsors and placed in new trusts, MPs have heard. The BBC reports Sir David Carter, England's national schools commissioner, told the education select committee that 119 academies had been "re-brokered" as a last resort.?
A research institute to help inform and shape policy at a local and national level has been launched by Sheffield Hallam University. The Sheffield Institute of Policy Studies will aim to cover areas such as housing, the impact of welfare reform, the voluntary and community sector, education and criminal justice.
