Youth workers were found to play a key role in reducing the number of young people in the justice system. Picture: Adobe Stock/ Monkey Business

Youth centre closures linked to increased risk of youth crime, NYA warns

Youth Work
Around 50,000 additional staff could be needed in 2024 to deliver plans for expanded childcare hours, researchers find. Picture: 1001 color/Adobe Stock

Early years staffing crisis ‘major barrier’ to planned childcare expansion

Early Years
The film highlights the importance of the role of youth workers. Picture: National Youth Agency

Youth Work Week 2023: NYA film highlights positive impact of services

Youth Work
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