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The National Lottery Community Fund new strategy

Funding
Health assessments provide an opportunity to listen. Picture: Viacheslav Yakobchuk/Adobe Stock

Legal Update: Keeping children in care safe

Children's Services
Carer’s leave should apply to all carers in a household. Picture: Tatsiana/Adobe Stock

Legal Update: The Carer’s Leave Act 2023

Children's Services
Building LEGO models at Brick Club gives children opportunities to overcome challenges and work together to solve problems. Picture: Ilusionistas

International Focus: LEGO play, worldwide

Education
‘Green influencers’ put together local environmental youth social action projects. Picture: Green Synergy

Green action connects children to natural world

Education
Mosslands School’s initiative was recognised at the Goldsmiths’ Awards for Community Engagement in June

Students take charitable action to counter threat of county lines in their community

Education
The government is investing in teaching support to improve early language development. Picture: Oksana Kuzmina/Adobe Stock

Speech, Language and Communication Needs: Special Report

Education
Geraldine Roseberry: “My family has extended tremendously as my young people have grown and had families of their own, some of whom I have been given the privilege of being ‘Nan’ to”

How I Got Here: Geraldine Roseberry, foster carer

Social Care
Positive relationship networks with adults can reduce homelessness risk among care leavers by 10 per cent. Picture: Seventyfour/Adobe Stock

Positive relationships reduce homelessness among care leavers, study finds

Children's Services
The research will focus on how to prevent the creation and distribution of self-generated CSAM. Picture: Brian/Adobe Stock

Study to examine four-fold rise in self-generated child abuse images

Health
The scheme provides healthy meals for children at LEYF nurseries. Picture: Anna Om/Adobe Stock

Charity partnership expands to fund more childcare hours for disadvantaged children

Early Years
James Cathcart is director of Young Voices Heard. Picture: Young Voices Heard

New evidence for #YouthVoice impact

Young Voices Heard