NYA to consult on the future of a national youth council

Youth Work
Lisa Nandy pledges a co-created strategy for young people

Culture Secretary pledges government strategy for young people

Youth Work

Josh MacAlister warns ministers ‘mess with Care Review reforms at own peril’

Social Care
Disadvantaged children are at risk of being locked out of funded childcare, the NAO warns. Picture: Adobe Stock

Persistently low access to childcare blighting poorer areas, Ofsted warns

Early Years

Rising number of women who died during pregnancy known to social services

Health

Funding applications launch for school-based nursery programme

Early Years
Sara Sharif was found dead at her home in August last year

Sara Sharif ‘homeschooled’ in months before her death after school agreed safeguarding referral

Education

Children left waiting years for a SEND diagnosis, Children’s Commissioner warns

Education
Janet Daby: ‘I very much believe in early intervention like keeping families together’

Government commits to taking forward Conservatives’ family help model

Social Care
Josh MacAlister is MP for Whitehaven and Workington

MacAlister bill could see social media companies banned from harvesting under-16s data

Education
More than 200,000 children and young people in the UK are in kinship care, according to the charity Kinship. Picture: Adobe Stock

DfE publishes updated kinship care guidance for councils

Social Care
Sam White worked for Starmer when he was leader of the opposition

Starmer’s former chief of staff replaces Josh MacAlister as Foundation’s chair

Social Care