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12/06/2024: Project for adults with learning disabilities to be extended to care leavers
A social care service that offers foster care support to adults with learning disabilities is being made available to care leavers.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
12/06/2024: Child predators are using AI to create sexual images of their favorite ‘stars’: ‘My body will never be mine again’
Safety groups say the’re increasingly finding chats about creating images based on past child sexual abuse material.
11/06/2024: How parents with learning disabilities lack support before, during and after care proceedings
Adults’ services are rarely supporting parents with learning disabilities, despite their Care Act entitlements and increased risks of having their children removed, finds research
10/06/2024: Police more than six times more likely to strip-search black children
New study also shows forces in England and Wales 10 times more likely to search black people.
10/06/2024: Children raised by friends or relatives are being ‘plunged into poverty’, says UK charity
A lack of financial and emotional support for kinship carers could push up to 18,000 children into an already overstretched foster care system
09/06/2024: Dead in 6 hours: How Nigerian sextortion scammers targeted my son
Sextortion is the fastest-growing scam affecting teenagers globally and has been linked to more than 27 suicides in the US alone. Many of the scammers appear to be from Nigeria – where authorities are defending their actions and are under pressure to do more.
09/06/2024: Pupils shown assembly on respect after riots
Schools have welcomed children back with an assembly promoting “respect and tolerance”, after the summer holidays were blighted by riots.
09/06/2024: No quick fix to special-needs pupil failures, parents told
There are no quick fixes to problems faced by families with children with special educational needs and disabilities, the schools minister has said.
09/06/2024: ‘Too easy’ for abusers to tutor with 90 caught
More than 90 private tutors in the UK have been convicted of sexual offences involving children over the past 20 years, the BBC has found.
09/06/2024: APPG on Youth Affairs meets for first time since election
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs has reconvened for the first time this parliament to plan out its priorities for government.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
09/06/2024: Increase in number of ‘sextortion’ contacts received by Childline
In 2023/24 Childline provided over 900 counselling sessions to children on sextortion – the blackmail and threats children receive to share sexual images online.
08/06/2024: Suicide-risk children refused places on NHS England waiting lists as services overwhelmed
Teachers warn families hitting ‘brick wall’ when trying to get help for children.