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30/01/2025: Call for age restrictions on video game loot boxes
More regulation is needed to limit gambling-like practices in video games, researchers have warned.
29/01/2025: ‘We don’t just teach – we clothe the kids, feed them and brush their teeth’
As the bell rings at St Nicholas Church of England Primary Academy in Boston, Lincolnshire, head teacher Mrs Booth spots a little boy coming through the gates with his hood pulled up, crying.
28/01/2025: Children joined riots for the ‘thrill’, report says
Children who took part in riots last summer were primarily driven by curiosity and the “thrill of the moment”, rather than far-right ideology and social media misinformation, the children’s commissioner for England has said.
27/01/2025: Press now allowed to report from family courts
Journalists can now report from family courts in England and Wales in what the UK’s most senior family judge has called a “watershed” change.
27/01/2025: ‘Do not boost SEND tribunal powers’, council representatives urge
A proposed extension of the powers and jurisdiction of SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) Tribunals have been criticised by local government representatives.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
27/01/2025: Domestic abuse tsar calls on police to recognise victim rights of child witnesses
The police are currently failing to recognise the victim rights of children who witness violence and abuse in their home, according to the domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
27/01/2025: ‘Flawed statistics’ undermine understanding of children in care outcomes, warns regional body
Available figures do not enable councils to determine whether they are purchasing the right kinds of placement, according to ‘co-operative’ set up to test region-wide commissioning of care
27/01/2025: Scottish child abuse gang members jailed for between eight and 20 years
Seven people, whom the judge said had plumbed ‘the depths of human depravity’, will be monitored for life
27/01/2025: Gen Z far less likely to be atheists than parents and grandparents, new study reveals
With many of younger generation found to identify as ‘spiritual’, research counters assumption spirituality is on decline and in fact implies God is ‘making a comeback’
27/01/2025: Effective Relational Working In Youth Justice
An evidence-informed model and guide for effective relational working in youth justice.
25/01/2025: Axel Rudakubana: from ‘unassuming’ schoolboy to Southport killer
How a chain of events apparently beginning at school five years ago led to the murder of three girls in horrific atrocity.
24/01/2025: Talking about extreme online violence with young people: advice for parents
How can parents know when children are accessing violent material and how should they discuss the risks?