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16/12/2024: ‘The school system is broken’: Why more parents are home-educating their children
“Toby was so tremendously unhappy in school,” says his father, Daniel. “We were standing outside the classroom door for an hour every morning and he just didn’t want to go in.
16/12/2024: ‘Families first for children’ model to be rolled out to all councils, says chief social worker
Approach involving family help and specialist child protection teams that is currently being tested in 10 areas to be extended across England, says Isabelle Trowler
16/12/2024: Archbishop of York ‘deeply sorry’ for not being able to act sooner over sex abuse case
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell is due to take over from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby next month as the Church battles serious sex abuse allegations.
16/12/2024: YJLC Summit: Collaborating with Children – Applying Child First Principles in Practice
This year’s Summit is our first youth-led conference. An organizing committee of young people has looked at whether a system designed without children at heart can ever really work. They have delved into what Child First, Collaboration and Participation are all about and have chosen speakers from around the world that they think will best examine the issues.
(Source: Youth Justice Legal Centre)
14/12/2024: Inexperienced social worker did not identify Sara Sharif’s father as posing any risk
The murdered girl had been allowed to live with her father, who had repeatedly attracted the attention of police and social workers.
13/12/2024: Practitioners struggling to respond to extrafamilial harm to children, finds analysis of serious cases
Staff not picking up on early signs of risk, such as missing episodes, while there is little evidence that interventions are keeping children safe, says national safeguarding panel, in annual report.
12/12/2024: Sara Sharif ‘safeguarding failures’ criticised following murder convictions
Schoolgirl Sara Sharif was “failed in the starkest terms” by child protection services, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said following the convictions today of her father and stepmother for her murder.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
12/12/2024: Care-experienced group launches in Parliament
Campaigners and MPs advocating for care-experienced young people have formed a new cross-party group in Parliament.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
12/12/2024: Our response to the Sara Sharif verdict
Maria Neophytou, Acting Chief Executive of the NSPCC, has responded to the Sara Sharif verdict.
11/12/2024: Puberty blockers for under-18s banned indefinitely
The ban on giving puberty blockers to under-18s questioning their gender identify is to be made permanent, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced.
11/12/2024: Services will shut, Mencap warns on National Insurance rise
A leading charity that supports people with learning disabilities says it may be forced to stop running at least 60 of its services as a result of increasing National Insurance costs.
11/12/2024: How working parents can get 15 and 30 hours free childcare
Working parents of children from nine months old can now access 15 hours a week of free childcare.