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Additional Family Costs for Children on the Autism Spectrum

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  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
    • | CYP Now
Children on the autism spectrum and their families face high financial costs but cost estimates to date have not included everyday items such as clothing, furniture and toys. This study, by Loughborough University and children’s disability charity Family Fund, set out to explore the additional cost of providing everyday goods and services that meet children’s needs.

Parental Involvement and its Effects on Children’s Education

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  • Tuesday, October 24, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Evidence shows parental engagement in children’s learning at home is critical to a child’s education and development. But most research to date has focused on mothers or parents in general, so less is known about how fathers affect their children’s education. This study by the University of Leeds, University of Manchester and the Fatherhood Institute set out to explore the relationship between fathers’ involvement in childcare and children’s educational outcomes as they progressed through primary school.

Outcomes for Looked-after Children Attending Boarding Schools

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Researchers from the University of Nottingham were commissioned by the Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation (RNCSF) to evaluate its boarding school programme for children in care or on the edge of care and help understand the potential educational and economic benefits.

Sexual Harassment in Secondary School: Prevalence and Ambiguities

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  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The UK government commissioned Ofsted to undertake a rapid review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges. Findings, published in June 2021, revealed sexual harassment and online sexual abuse are so commonplace for many young people that they see no point in reporting them.

Sexual health and relationships: Research evidence

Jonathan Baggaley, chief executive of the PSHE Association, outlines research on the impact of pornography on young people and how schools can cover the topic in statutory relationships, sex and health education. Pornography and Human Futures, Fully Human Issue 1

Learning Inequalities During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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  • Tuesday, September 29, 2020
    • | CYP Now
The majority of children who did not attend school between March and July 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic lost 15 weeks’ face-to-face schooling. Prolonged school closures and the abrupt transition to home-schooling could have severe consequences on students across the UK. Researchers from the University of Southampton set out to discover the impact of home learning on children from different backgrounds.

How can we help young people with a social worker to thrive in education?

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  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Doing well in school is among the strongest predictors of future life success. Although the relationship isn’t perfect – some people succeed without many or any qualifications, or return to education later in life – this relationship is important. Ensuring that young people can access and achieve in education is a priority for well-functioning societies.

Social Mobility, Chance or Choice?

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  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
A sequel to Born to Fail? Social Mobility a Working Class View (2017), Social Mobility, Chance or Choice? revisits mutuality and asks do we dare to start a new conversation by considering the issues, solutions and impact to the education and social issues that push against the moral questions underpinning social mobility.

The Educational Aspirations and Psychological Wellbeing of Adopted Young People

Local authorities in England and Wales have a legal duty to report annually to central government on looked-after children's psychological wellbeing and academic attainment but this duty ends once children are adopted. Researchers from Cardiff University wanted to fill this gap in understanding of how young people adopted from the care system perform at school, looking at their wellbeing and aspirations around work and education.

E-Safety: Screen Time

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  • Tuesday, February 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Although the phrase "screen time" is not typically part of parents' vocabulary, the description of screen time is something parents deal with daily. Parents are exploring the benefits of screen time while mitigating the risks and managing their own behaviour to be role models for their children.

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