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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.
11/04/2024: English schools could lose £1bn by 2030 as pupil numbers fall
School rolls swelled because of fertility surge in 2000s but birthrate and migration patterns have brought decline.
11/04/2024: Five thousand children with gender-related distress awaiting NHS care in England
New gender clinics looking at ‘creative ways’ of reducing waiting lists amid shortage of clinicians.
10/04/2024: Young people ‘distressed’ by frequent police visits at home, research warns
Young people with experience of the criminal justice system say the second most common place for them to see police is at their home, with incidents often involving excessive force from officers.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
10/04/2024: Cass review: Gender identity services for young people ‘need to match standards of other NHS care’
A landmark healthcare review has called on the NHS to ensure gender identity services for young people match the standards of its other forms of care and support.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
10/04/2024: Budgets to support visually impaired children slashed by councils
More than half of local authorities have cut or frozen the number of specialist teachers they employ to support children with visual impairments, according to new research.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
10/04/2024: UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s
Polls show significant support for curb to protect children but some Tories uneasy with idea of government ‘microparenting’
09/04/2024: GCSE results for disadvantaged children ‘greatly improved by Sure Start’
Children eligible for free school meals (FSM) who live near a Sure Start centre saw increased performance at GCSE by three grades, six times higher than children not eligible for FSM, new research has found.