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General Election 2024: Achieving good emotional health for all

Friday, June 21, 2024

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The UK is facing a significant mental health crisis. The most recent NHS Adult Psychiatric Morbidity survey found that one in six adults in England had a common mental health condition, which included a range of diagnosable anxiety and depressive disorders.

Build what you want, but you need a confident, skilled population to make it work

Friday, June 21, 2024

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With party manifestos landing thick and fast ahead of 4 July, what has stood out so clearly is not any one party’s utopian vision of a prosperous future for all, but promises and pledges steeped in pragmatism.

General Election 2024: Manifestos missing strong call for childcare reform

Monday, June 17, 2024

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The general election is imminent. All the main parties have unveiled their vision for the country. So what do we now know about the future of childcare?

General Election 2024: Investing in young people should be a no-brainer for our next government

Monday, June 17, 2024

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For nearly 70 years, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) has been helping young people develop life-long belief in themselves, take on new challenges, follow their passions and discover talents they never knew they had.

National service won’t build brighter futures for young people, volunteering will

Monday, June 3, 2024

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I deliver more than 2.3 million hours of leadership skills programmes to young people a year – that’s why I know Rishi’s national service scheme won’t work.

How nurseries can better communicate funding complexities to parents

Friday, May 31, 2024

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Since the announcement of the 2023 spring budget, there has been much debate around the most pertinent topics facing the entirety of the early years sector — the complexities of funded childcare and how this is communicated to parents.

Child mental health crisis: Why it’s important to provide ‘parental pillars’ for employees with kids

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

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Parents are becoming more anxious about their children’s mental health than ever before.

Fair pay, terms and conditions for residential child care workers can be enacted now

Monday, May 20, 2024

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Fair pay terms and conditions is in the interests of children, their residential child care workers and the public interest.

Step by step: Supporting youth mental health through physical activity

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

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This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme, appropriately as we approach the sporting summer, is "Movement: Moving more for our mental health."

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

Monday, May 13, 2024

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The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has just published its three-year strategy (2024-2027) and it rightly recognises the challenges of improving positive outcomes for young people, reducing racial disparity, preventing and diverting young people away from the youth justice system and supporting victims.

What should the next government do about the demand for ADHD services?

Thursday, May 2, 2024

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I recently attended Parliament for Matt Hancock’s reading of his Neurodivergent Conditions (Screening & Teacher Training) Bill, which thankfully passed to the next stage.

Use ban on smartphones for under 16s as a tool to enhance online safety

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

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Conversations around how to improve online child safety continue to gain momentum. Most recently, the UK government is rumoured to be considering a ban on under 16s from being able to purchase smartphones, in a bid to protect them from harmful digital content.

Thinking differently to support children and young people’s mental health

Monday, April 29, 2024

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Solutions that address the entire system are rare. Policies typically address immediate priorities and urgent needs, leaving the long-term, systemic issues unresolved.

Speaking out about care experience

Monday, April 29, 2024

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The time has come, we are out there.

Reflections from 40 years on the frontline in the fight against child sexual abuse

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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I will always remember the day I first shook hands with a convicted sex offender. It was 1981 in Gloucester Prison. I was 26 years old and working as a probation officer in Hereford at the time.

Why military children matter

Thursday, March 28, 2024

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April is the International Month of the Military Child. It’s not just a month for military families to celebrate but it’s also a time for professionals to reflect on the needs of service children and how they are supported.

Understanding the other side of the story

Monday, March 25, 2024

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Impartiality is one of the central pillars of the BBC. In an increasingly polarised world, its role in providing audiences with well-researched, high quality journalism is hugely important.

New social housing tests will be detrimental to vulnerable young people

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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The allocation of social housing is set for a huge shake-up.

No time to waste: A call for joint action to invest in young people

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

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Young people in the UK are facing a crisis. From the continued increase in the cost of living to mental health problems, more young people are disengaged from school and are struggling to get on the first rung of the ladder for work.

Call for stronger regulation of kinship strategy

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

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Across England, there are more than 130,000 children who are unable to live with their parents and are being raised by kinship carers.

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