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16/05/2024: EU investigates Facebook owner Meta over child safety and mental health concerns
Company’s social media platforms, which also include Instagram, may have addictive effects, says European Commission.
15/05/2024: Preventing Sexually Harmful Behaviour of young people
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) has published a recording of its webinar on harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). The webinar focuses on the work of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation in preventing HSB, looking at two different initiatives.
15/05/2024: Sextortion: Advice for professionals, young people, parents and carers
The UK Safer Internet Centre has published new guidance on financially motivated sexual extortion or ‚’sextortion’. The page provides advice, resources and tools designed to help professionals, parents, carers and young people, including information on how to report and escalate incidents.
(Source: South West Grid for Learning)
15/05/2024: Plan to ban sex education for children under nine
Schools in England will be banned from teaching sex education to children under nine, in new government guidance expected to be published on Thursday.
15/05/2024: Vulnerable children in England ‘safer at schoo’ than being educated at home
Review of serious safeguarding failures finds young people from abusive environments ‘less visible’ to agencies
12/05/2024: Revised Mental Capacity Act (MCA) code of practice ‘still under discussion’ two years after consultation on changes
Care minister declines to commit to publishing update to 17-year-old code before next election, saying ministers are still discussing potential changes, despite consultation on revisions ending in July 2022
11/05/2024: Black market dealers selling puberty blocker drugs to British teenagers who are cheating ban
Teenagers convinced they are the wrong gender are breaking an NHS ban on puberty blocker drugs by buying them online from foreign dealers.
11/05/2024: Michael Gove admits ‘regret’ over rise in children in temporary housing
Data shows 112,000 households in temporary housing in England on 31 December 2023, a 12.1% rise on the previous year.
11/05/2024: Smoking ban: Why are young people still taking up smoking?
The government is planning one of the toughest smoking laws in the world, which would effectively ban it.
10/05/2024: Child abuse inquiry chair calls new ‘duty to report’ law deeply disappointing
Alexis Jay calls UK government’s legislation ‘fudge’ as abuse survivors attack it as ‘worse than useless’.
10/05/2024: Pupils miss classes as school cyber attacks rise
Cancelled lessons and snaking lunchtime queues are among the ways pupils are being affected by an increasing number of cyber attacks on schools.
10/05/2024: Longfield calls for schools to be at the centre of new Sure Start proposals
Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield’s new think tank is leading calls for schools to become central hubs for a new iteration of Sure Start which would support all young people.