Upcoming Events
Tackling Harassment in Higher Education Conference
23/09/2025
From 1st August 2025, all universities and colleges will be required to meet a new condition of registration on harassment and sexual misconduct. Now is the time for higher education institutions to update their policies and processes to better protect students and deal with incidents effectively. Following the introduction of the new OfS condition, join Westminster Insight’s Tackling Harassment in Higher Education Conference to ensure you are meeting the requirements.
ISTRuctE, London From £250.00
Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour Digital Conference
30/09/2025
Cracking down on anti-social behaviour (ASB) in communities is a key priority. Join this timely, half-day conference to discuss the next steps for preventing and tackling ASB across the country. The Crime and Policing Bill, currently making its way through Parliament, is set to introduce major provisions to help stamp out anti-social behaviour and deal with perpetrators, including new Respect Orders.
From £279.00
Webinar: Children Facing Sexual Allegations
30/09/2025
Allegations of sexual offences present unique and complex challenges for children accused of them. The stigma and potential for a lasting criminal record can have life-long consequences. Paradoxically, some of the very laws intended to protect children from exploitation by adults are now being applied to prosecute children themselves.
£15.00
School Attendance Digital Conference
22/10/2025
The evidence is clear that every day at school counts. School absence was at 7.1% last academic year, a reduction from 7.4% in 2022/23, but still significantly higher than pre-pandemic rates (4.7% in 2018/19). Particularly concerning is that one in five children are now persistently absent (missing more than 10% of school days) and severe absence (missing more than half of school) has more than doubled since the pandemic.
From £279.00
Tackling County Lines Digital Conference
02/12/2025
With an estimated 14,500 children at risk or involved in county lines criminal exploitation, the urgency to act has never been greater. Chaired by Steph Roberts-Bibby, Chief Executive of the Youth Justice Board, Westminster Insight’s timely Tackling County Lines online conference will explore the latest developments in policy, prevention, and protection.
From £279.00
Work experience 2025
16/04/2024: Poorer families in England spending more on childcare costs than in other countries
England is one of only a few countries where poorer families spend a higher proportion of their income on childcare than their more well-off peers, new research finds.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
16/04/2024: Teenagers who use internet to excess ‘more likely to skip school’
But truancy and illness-related absences can be reversed with good sleeping habits and strong family ties, study suggests.
15/04/2024: Children excluded in primary school less likely to pass GCSEs, new research warns
Charity Chance UK has conducted a study into the long-term impacts of children being excluded or suspended in primary school – finding that almost all pupils excluded at that age had a special education need or disability.
14/04/2024: Social media could be BANNED for under-16s to protect them under new plans being considered by ministers
A social media ban for under-16s is among a raft of proposals set to be unveiled by the Government within weeks, it has been reported.
13/04/2024: Revealed: hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England
Observer investigation finds that private companies made £105m despite not being registered with Ofsted
13/04/2024: ‘Nowhere else is available’: how vulnerable children end up in illegal care homes
Harrowing court video hearings reveal plight of those unable to find a place in secure, registered accommodation.
12/04/2024: Keeping Children Out Of The Justice System
Young advocates report explore routes into the justice system for young people and, critically, pathways out of it.
12/04/2024: Drugs gangs ‘targeting younger children’, Longfield warns
Since the pandemic county lines drugs gangs have been exploiting younger children, former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has warned.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
11/04/2024: ‘Stable and fairer funding’ needed to improve youth justice services, says YJB
The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has called on the government to improve the distribution of funding to youth offending services.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
11/04/2024: MPs launch call for care leavers to share experience of services
Cross-party MPs are encouraging people to share their experiences of children’s social care as part of their investigation into how the government could improve services.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
11/04/2024: Children’s safety campaigners call for WhatsApp to reverse age limit reduction
Campaigners are calling on WhatsApp to reverse its decision to cut the age limit of users from 16 to 13.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
11/04/2024: The Victoria Climbie Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on
For Community Care’s 50th anniversary, Herbert Laming reflects on changes to child protection since his landmark 2003 report on the brutal murder of eight-year-old girl.