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
23/05/2025: ‘I’ve applied for hundreds of jobs’: One in eight youths not in work or education
“I’ve applied for factories, care work, hospital work – anything to just get a job to support me and my son,” says 20-year-old mum Libby.
23/05/2025: Calls to strengthen family justice system after damning report
Campaigners have backed calls for government to strengthen the family justice system, after a damning National Audit Office (NAO) report revealed a backlog of nearly 50,000 cases.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
22/05/2025: Research finds ‘long-lasting financial benefits’ of Sure Start
Sure Start children’s centres generated “widespread and long-lasting benefits” for children that have created financial savings to the UK economy that “could be twice as high as its costs”, a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
22/05/2025: Slight improvements in racial diversity and more consistent retention in DCS role, ADCS reports
Fewer local authorities experienced a change in director of children’s services last year, according to The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), 2025 DCS update.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
21/05/2025: Phone and shouting ban ‘transforms’ school plagued by fights
Fights arranged in school via social media, then filmed and shared online.
21/05/2025: Universities must do more to prevent suicides, ministers say
Universities in England have been told to step up efforts to prevent student suicides, in a review commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE).
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21/05/2025: Health providers call on government to prioritise young people
Health providers are urging ministers to ensure children’s health is a priority in its forthcoming NHS Plan and Comprehensive Spending Review and to build on good practice already taking place to support young people.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
20/05/2025: Mobile prison used to teach children about crime
A mobile prison cell, complete with bunk beds and a metal toilet, is visiting primary schools to teach children about crime.
16/05/2025: Government ‘outpaced’ in mission to tackle violence against women and girls, warns PAC
The government must take “strong action on all fronts” to tackle violence against women and girls, an influential committee of MPs has urged, after an inquiry found that support services are under “unsustainable pressure”.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
16/05/2025: DfE unveils more funding for mental health in schools teams
The Department for Education has announced a funding boost of up to £49 million to provide 900,000 more pupils with mental health support in school this year.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
15/05/2025: Private schools say fees have gone up by 22% in last year
Private school fees were 22.6% higher on average in January compared with a year ago, according to the body that represents most independent schools in the UK.
15/05/2025: ‘I thought the abuse was normal – he was my first proper boyfriend’
Lucy, not her real name, was just 13 years old when she met her ex-boyfriend online. The start of their relationship was “like something out of a rom-com or romance novel”.