Child neglect offences increase by more than 50%
Child cruelty and neglect offences have risen by more than 50% over three years, the NSPCC has warned.
The children’s charity’s analysis of police data has revealed that there were 23,529 recorded offences over the 12-month period between 2019 and 2020. Although there are significant variations between different regions and nations, the charity is concerned about [...]
Covid regulations rule in favour of kinship care
The government has introduced an exemption to the new Covid regulations to allow a child, who cannot remain safely at home, to meet with relatives, such as grandparents or a family friend, who have put themselves forward to raise the child on a temporary or permanent basis.
Following a threat of legal action by the charity [...]
Number of children locked up through the ‘inherent jurisdiction’ has tripled
There are more than 1,300 children locked up in various institutions, with a growing number who are not living in places designed to hold children securely, the children’s commissioner for England has warned.
Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England, has published a report shining a light on some of the most vulnerable children in the country, [...]
Ofsted: Child abuse could be going undetected
Ofsted has raised concerns that child abuse could be going undetected in its annual report published today.
Reiterating fears previously raised in the inspectorate’s second report looking at the effects of COVID-19 on education and social care, the chief inspector of Ofsted Amanda Spielman said that while that number of child protection referrals has risen since [...]
Shift from crisis to prevention needed in self-harm services
There should be a system shift away from the current reliance on crisis interventions in tackling self-harm towards a more preventative model of support is the overriding message from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention.
Respondents to their inquiry made clear that the single most impactful change to improve the support available to [...]
Christmas exacerbates anxieties among children
Many parents are wishing they could cancel Christmas while children fear an unhappy family time, a study by Action for Children has found.
A poll of parents found that one in six would cancel Christmas if they could, rising even higher for those on Universal Credit for the first time this year. A survey of children [...]
