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10/08/2024: School starters born during pandemic lack communication skills, Ofsted says

English primary schools having to help infants catch up on speech and language to cope with lessons

(Source: Guardian)

10/08/2024: ‘Fear of missing out’ keeping girls and young women online despite sexism

Almost half of girls aged 11 to 21 in Girlguiding survey say sexism and misogyny makes them feel less safe

(Source: Guardian)

08/08/2024: Trials to test effectiveness of youth arts and sports schemes in preventing crime

Six youth sports, arts and outdoor activity schemes have received £11mn to test their effectiveness in preventing young people from becoming involved in crime and violence.

(Source: Children and Young People Now)

08/08/2024: Boosting Staying Put take up ‘could reduce care leaver homelessness’

Increasing the number of young people in care involved in Staying Put foster care schemes could prevent hundreds of care leavers a year becoming homeless, evaluation of the initiative has found.

(Source: Children and Young People Now)

03/08/2024: Rape survivor: Sexual violence uni staff training might have saved me

A sexual violence survivor says if university staff had been specially trained, she might not have been raped.

(Source: BBC)

03/08/2024: Knife crime: Bristol gym provides mental health support

A man who was stabbed in the stomach as a teenager is rallying to “keep kids off the streets”.

(Source: BBC)

03/08/2024: Child influencers should be protected by new guidelines – expert

Guidelines should be drawn up to protect so-called child influencers from being exploited for content, a legal expert has claimed.

(Source: BBC)

03/08/2024: Blanket approach to cost-of-living support ‘impacting youth mental health’

The “one-size-fits all approach” to supporting children through the cost-of-living crisis “overlooks the unique challenges faced by young people”, the Youth Select Committee’s new report has found.

(Source: Children and Young People Now)

03/08/2024: SWGfL Calls for Better Protections Within Regulations of the Online Safety Act

SWGfL has recently responded to the Ofcom illegal harms consultation to voice specific concerns within the proposed regulation of the Online Safety Act.

(Source: South West Grid for Learning)

02/08/2024: Sex abuser used vapes to groom 14-year-old girl

A 14-year-old girl has told the BBC she was sexually abused by an older man who groomed her by posing as a teenager offering to buy her vapes.

(Source: BBC)

02/08/2024: Supporting Racially Minoritised Young People Transitioning To Adulthood

AYJ briefing explores how racially minoritised young people experience particularly destabilising transitions due to deficits in support before and after turning 18.

(Source: Russell Webster)

01/08/2024: Labour vows to tackle school absences and ‘broken relationship’ with families

Bridget Phillipson to set out ‘generational challenges’ also including child mental health crisis

(Source: Guardian)