Policing models too disjointed to ensure effective response to county lines
Policing models are too disjointed to ensure the most effective response to county line offending, a report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.
While police forces and the National Crime Agency have successfully improved their understanding of ‘county lines’ drug offending, there needs to be a more coherent and integrated [...]
One quarter of children rejected from mental health services
Over a quarter of referrals to specialist children’s mental health services were rejected in 2018-2019, according to research by the Education Policy Institute.
Despite an extra £1.4bn bring invested in children's mental health between 2015-16 to 2020-21, approximately 133,000 children and young people were turned away from specialist help usually because children’s conditions were deemed [...]
Solihull makes progress but services are still not good
Solihull MBC has made some progress in improving the quality of services for children and families since its inspection in 2016, Ofsted has said. However, services are not yet good and not all areas of concern identified at the last inspection have been addressed.
A strengthened front door multi-agency response and a reconfigured early help [...]
Restrictive interventions in schools exacerbates mental health problems
Secluding, restraining and excluding children in schools can exacerbate behavioural difficulties in children who have experienced trauma, the Centre for Mental Health has warned.
Using restrictive interventions in schools can make the problems staff are trying to resolve worse and create a vicious circle of trauma, challenging behaviour, restriction and psychological harm, the centre warns [...]
WillisPalmer's Philip King on what he hopes a new decade will bring for vulnerable children
A Happy New Year to all our readers – a new year and a new decade!
I hate to start the decade on a negative note but the stories in this newsletter sadly reflect that, in some fundamental ways, things are not getting better for the most vulnerable people in our society. They are important [...]
Four in 10 children in care living 'out of area'
There were almost a thousand children in care living over 150 miles away from the area they would call home, the children's commissioner has warned.
At 31st March 2018, four in ten children in care in England were living ‘out of area’, with more than 11,000 children living more than 20 miles from their home [...]
