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18/04/2024: Free Loaves on Fridays: Anthology of 100 care experienced voices published
A new anthology containing the voices of 100 children and adults about their experience in care is now available in bookshops.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
17/04/2024: Paedophiles could be stripped of parental rights under new law
Paedophiles convicted of serious sexual offences could lose parental rights over their children under a new law.
17/04/2024: Protect children from smacking in England and Northern Ireland, say doctors
Smacking children should be made illegal in England and Northern Ireland, say children’s doctors, calling current laws “unjust and dangerously vague”.
17/04/2024: Youth work improvement initiative to tackle ‘fragmentation’ of services
An initiative is launching that aims to gather the views of a cross-sector group of 10,000 professionals to find ways to improve support for young people.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
17/04/2024: MPs back plans to tackle youth vaping
MPs have backed major plans to tackle youth vaping and smoking including a ban on the marketing of vaping products aimed at children.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
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.