MPs claim children are being taught 'age-inappropriate' RSHE content. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

Cost-of-living crisis impacting children’s wellbeing, research finds

Health
Financial and recruitment pressures are leading to a crisis for children in residential care. Picture: insta_photos/Adobe Stock

Councils opened more than 100 new children’s homes last year, Ofsted figures show

Social Care

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Early Help

Health
Youth workers have played a central role supporting young people in the communities affected by the violent disorder in recent weeks

Riot response: youth workers will be crucial for healing communities

Youth Work

Briefing: ‘free’ childcare expansion enters next phase

Early Years
Extending free school meals was a key pledge in Sadiq Khan’s re-election campaign

London’s free school meals drive

Health
Wider societal barriers are preventing younger people from becoming foster carers

Increasing foster carer numbers

Social Care

Police forces struggle to tackle child sexual exploitation cases

Social Care
Multi-agency working is key to spotting risk factors for children and young people

Joint work ‘key to safeguarding’ in CSE cases

Social Care

Interview: Lucy Peake, chief executive, Kinship

Social Care
Fiona Simpson: 'Tying youth services to violence prevention so closely risks increasing stigma around access to support'

Open-access youth services key to community support

Youth Work
Jo Davidson, associate, the Staff College

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