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09/05/2025: My Care Story: ‘Don’t assume that everything is okay because that is the carer’s narrative’
A care-experienced advocate for children in care discusses the consequences of social workers failing to believe what young people tell them
08/05/2025: Teen girls report more social media issues than boys
social media use compared with boys, a survey has found.
08/05/2025: High caseloads putting ‘significant strain’ on home education staff
Government plans to place new child protection duties on councils to identify children not in school are at risk without extra funding to tackle high caseloads among home education teams, the NSPCC is warning.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
08/05/2025: MPs grill former Conservative minister over Sure Start demise
Former Conservative minister Dame Andrea Leadsom was accused of giving evasive answers during questioning by an influential group of MPs over her role in the decline of the early years Sure Start scheme.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
07/05/2025: Council pilots phone-free schools scheme
Edinburgh City Council has become the first local authority in the UK to make schools phone-free in a pilot scheme.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
07/05/2025: Expansion of early support hubs ‘vital’ to improving young people’s mental health
The government is being urged to use the forthcoming spending review to commit to increasing the number of early support mental health hubs for young people.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
05/05/2025: Youth project aims to inspire boys and young men
A grassroots initiative in West Yorkshire aims to empower boys and young men by helping to create more safe spaces for them, its organisers have said.
04/05/2025: Specialist therapy course launched for foster carers
A specialist course believed to be the first of its kind is being launched for foster carers of children who have suffered traumatic experiences.
04/05/2025: Teen mental health: When to seek help and what parents can do
Lucy says she’s always been a bit of worrier, but two years ago she began to get anxious and started having panic attacks.
03/05/2025: Teaching union launches legal action against Ofsted
A school leaders’ union says it is taking legal action against Ofsted over proposed changes to the way it inspects schools in England.
01/05/2025: One in eight teachers say a pupil at their school has sexually assaulted a classmate
The government is being urged to deploy a dedicated violence against women and girls (VAWG) lead in every secondary school after a survey found one in eight teachers reported an incident of a pupil sexually assaulting a classmate.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
29/04/2025: Fatima Whitbread appeals to the government to overhaul care system
The former javelin world record holder has worked with fellow care-experienced people to produce a white paper with 14 action points for the government to implement