A £20 million package of measures has been launched by the government to tackle county lines.
Home secretary Priti Patel has announced the measures to intensify law enforcement efforts to disrupt the county lines model where gangs distribute drugs through vulnerable adults and children.
Under the measures, the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre [...]
The Childrens Commissioner for England has urged the government to take action after analysis has shown that 18 per cent of children are leaving education at 18 failing to reach five GCSEs grade A* to C, or equivalent technical qualifications.
Anne Longfield has published research showing that 98,799 children in England (18% of all school [...]
ADCS says suggestion is 'wholly inappropriate' - A row has erupted after the All Party Parliamentary Group for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults has slammed local authorities for unwittingly acting as ‘recruiting sergeants’ for county lines drugs gangs by sending vulnerable children to live miles away from home.
A row has erupted after the All Party [...]
Twenty three projects supporting young people with mental health problems are to benefit from £3.3 million of funding, the government has announced.
Support including counselling, mentoring and arts programmes will be offered to young people with mental ill health in their communities as a result of the funding.
Minister for Public [...]
An "ambitious service remodelling" including a total reconfiguration of the ‘front door’, has been introduced at Surrey,Ofsted has said.
New arrangements had been fully operational for only five weeks at the time of the monitoring visit following the the implementation of a new practice model, called ‘family resilience’, underpinning a widescale planned redesign and restructure of [...]
Clare Jerrom looks at the government's recently published report into the educational outcomes of children in care.
The children's commissioner for England has slammed "the absolute paralysis currently affecting much of Whitehall and Westminster" saying the delays over Brexit have prevented the government from tackling childhood vulnerability.
Anne Longfield highlighted that it has been three years since [...]
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