Labour won with a landslide majority. Picture: X/ Keir Starmer

General Election 2024: How Labour's win could impact the children and young people’s sector

Children's Services
Josh MacAlister (left) elected as a Labour MP while Bridget Phillippson (right) has retained her seat. Picture: Bridget Phillipson/X

General Election 2024: Care Review chair Josh MacAlister elected as Labour MP

Social Care
David Johnston was appointed children's minister in August 2023. Picture: UK Parliament

General Election 2024: Former children's minister Johnston among Tory MPs to lose seats

Children's Services
Bridget Phillipson is MP for Houghton and Sunderland. Picture: UK Parliament

Bridget Phillipson appointed as Education Secretary

Education
Moving children to a new area could leave them unsupported and open to greater risk, HM Inspectorate of Probation warns. Picture: Candy1812/Adobe Stock

Out-of-area care placements make support ‘more challenging’, warns youth justice inspectorate

Youth Justice
Scouts waiting list stands at 107,000 nationally. Picture: Scouts

Scouts issues volunteer plea as waiting lists reach record level

Youth Work
Children's sector leaders are urging the next government to invest in young people's services.

General Election 2024: Next government urged to prioritise children as voters go to polls

Social Care
Willow: 'There is huge public interest in transparency over who has been selected for this expert group'. Picture: Article 39

DfE threatened with internal review over failure to share membership of expert group

Social Care
Sir Peter Lampl also founded the Education Endowment Foundation. Picture: sirpeterlampl.co.uk

Social mobility charity founder Sir Peter Lampl to retire

Children's Services
A plan to improve recruitment and retention is staff is also need to sustain the early years sector, leaders say. Picture: LightfieldStudios/Adobe Stock

Enough funding for providers is voters’ top childcare priority ahead of election

Early Years
Alastair Campbell, Salma Shah and Kwajo Tweneboa were on the panel discussing answering questions from young people. Picture: Jo Rogers.

General Election 2024: Young people question former government advisers on ‘distrust’ of politicians

Youth Work
Holly Cobb is a young adult carer. Picture: Carer's Trust

General Election 2024: 'My family have struggled with the system for too long – young carers like me urgently need it to change'

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