Call for crackdown on online marketing of junk food; salary of £25,000 proposed for police youth ambassador, and new welfare system starts, all in the news today.
Debbie Jones appointed regional director for Ofsted, a call for more support for young carers, and Salford children's services department improves, all in the news today.
Gove highlights FGM risk in letter to school head teachers; Coventry councillors work together to improve children's services; and Nottinghamshire councils develop plan to cut child injuries, all in the news today.
Call for government to extend National Careers Service; research shows cuts affecting deprived areas more; and Lords back bid to ban smoking in cars, all in the news today.
A council places adoption and maternity pay on a level footing, university applications drop, and dormant accounts cash used to fund "floating youth club", all in the news today.
Somewhere in the archives of early 21st-century British social policy, there may be a dusty volume that records the fact that I was the only person who served under all five chairs of the Youth Justice Board - the supremely confident and connected Norman Warner, interim chair and passionate advocate of restorative justice Charles Pollard, the intellectually unsurpassable Rod Morgan, the pragmatic and effective Graham Robb (another interim chair), and the cautious but industrious Frances Done.
Research shows schools are increasingly shunning vocational courses, MPs call for a power shift to councils, and a report finds that youth unemployment in the UK is rising faster than in other G8 nations, all in the news today.
The Department for Education cuts funding for the Children's Food Trust, the Welsh government decides to retain GCSEs and A levels, and concerns that the replacement for Asbos could be used "inappropriately", all in the news today.
Outrage over the decision to sanction the use force on pregnant women in immigration detention, a call for a review of children's wards in Scotland, and a 'peer sentencing' pilot Hampshire, all in the news today.
It has been two years in the making, but the revised Working Together guidance has finally been published. The new, streamlined version contains crucial information for all those with a role in safeguarding children
A survey of local directors of public health by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC) for England assessed local responses to youth violence and gangs.