Record numbers of young people have contacted councils for support with homelessness, research finds. Picture: Searching for Sartori/Adobe Stock

Record number of young people seeking homelessness support

Social Care
John Pearce is director of children’s services at Durham County Council

Children need change

The ADCS Blog
Jonathan Stanley is manager of National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care. Picture: Tom Campbell

Residential child care futures - we are stuck, no closer to a solution after years of reports

Guest Blog
June O’Sullivan is chief executive of the London Early Years Foundation. Picture: LEYF

What does mental health look like for a small child?

The Early Years Blog
The funding is designed to give kinship carers greater support. Picture: AdobeStock/ Halpfpoint

Charity to deliver government-funded national kinship care training

Social Care
Councils warn that 'an acute rise in the costs of placing children in care mean in-year spending on children’s services is spiralling out of control'. Picture: Adobe Stock

Children’s services spending ‘spiralling out of control’, councils warn

Social Care
The initiative is aimed at supporting young people who are unlikely to report crimes against them. Picture: C Fizkes/Adobe Stock

Youth workers to be trained to support young victims of unreported crime

Youth Work
De Souza: 'It is my ambition that every child should be in school 100 per cent of the time.' Picture: Office of the Children's Commissioner for England

Make data sharing on school attendance mandatory, children’s commissioner says

Education
NCS's Gifford: 'We know schools would like to up their enrichment offer'. Picture: NCS Trust

National Citizen Service partners with DoE for school activities pilot

Youth Work
Too many care-experienced young people in Devon live in unsuitable accommodation, according to Ofsted

Ofsted calls for action over council's care leaver accommodation crisis

Social Care
Experts will discuss how to best support pupils with visual and hearing problems in school. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

Webinar to examine impact of vision and hearing problems on child development

Health
The National Tutoring Programme is being used to help close the attainment gap. Picture: AdobeStockPicture: AdobeStock/ AntonioDiaz

Success of National Tutoring Programme threatened by funding shortage

Education