Major youth work charities announce merger

Youth Work

Daily roundup 20 September: Kingsman, banned advert, and outside play

Flagship early intervention programme set for further expansion

Early help

Call for overhaul of 'perverse' apprenticeships funding system

Careers

Ofsted criticises lack of action to prevent domestic abuse

Children's Services

Daily roundup 19 September: Mental health, toy guns, and robots

Parsons Green bombing: Arrests prompt foster care recruitment concerns

Social Care

DfE orders council to consider alternative delivery of children's services

Ofsted

One in four girls depressed by age 14

Health

Daily roundup 18 September: Vigilante warning, child trafficking and terror raid

MP criticises rising use of out-of-area children's home placements

Social Care

Youth prison stabilises but violence remains high, inspectors find

Youth Justice