Data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggests 4.2 million children were living in poverty in 2021/22. Picture: Adobe Stock

Family Support and Family Hubs: Key policy developments

Children's Services
New Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced the launch of funding

New government puts children’s wellbeing at heart of its agenda

Early Years
Sir Kevan Collins was education recovery tsar for five months after quitting in protest. Picture: DfE

SEND inclusion in mainstream schools key to DfE reorganisation

Children's Services
Experts suggest inadequate support for struggling pupils is driving up exclusions. Picture: Andov/Adobe Stock

Exclusions rise adds impetus for change

Education
NCS universality could be reconsidered, Oginsky says. Picture: Soloviova Liudmyla/Adobe Stock

Leadership changes present an opportunity to reposition NCS

Youth Work
Researchers looked at what ideas ‘stick’ to support children leaving care. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

Toolkit aims to spread innovative practice in leaving care services

Children's Services
The newly elected Labour government pledged to create more than 3,000 nurseries in existing primary schools. Picture: Adobe Stock

Factors behind two-year-old decline

Early Years
Andy Smith is director of children and adult services at Derby City Council

Warning over state of council finances

Children's Services
Warren: ‘Young people bring in a new perspective’. Picture: Spark UK

Interview: Conor Warren, 18, chief executive of Spark UK

Youth Work
The school has been designed in an effort to combat the shortage of specialist schools in West Berkshire. Picture: Amegreen Children’s Services

Plans approved for former nursery to become special school

Education
Doctors' leaders are calling for an increase in trainee paediatricians. Photo: AdobeStock

One in five trainee child doctors at risk of burnout

Health
Lib Peck speaks at an event sharing best practice for embedding the inclusion charter. Picture: London VRU

Three quarters of London boroughs sign up to charter to tackle lost learning

Youth Work