Worcestershire has made progress in improving its services for children and young people who are at risk from sexual exploitation and those children and young people who go missing, according to Ofsted.
Children at risk of child sexual exploitation and going missing are proactively worked with in order to identify and reduce risk, the seventh [...]
The needs of children need to be placed at the centre of a reformed Mental Health legislation otherwise it risks becoming little more than a "sticking plaster", a report has warned.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood has said the needs of children need to feature ‘first, last and foremost’ in any [...]
More than half of boys in Young Offender Institutions are from a black or minority ethnic background, a report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons has found.
The level of boys from BME backgrounds in YOIs in 2017-18 is the highest rate recorded since 2001 when the surveys in the secure estate began.
Nearly a quarter (23%) of [...]
Birmingham children's services has made progress from a low base in improving the quality of services to children and families, Ofsted has said.
The local authority, the shadow board, and since its inception in April 2018, Birmingham Children’s Trust (BCT) have made good use of monitoring visits since the 2016 inspection, and many of the recommendations [...]
Police recorded more than 9,000 child sexual offences with an online element, new figures from the Office of National Statistics have found.
The statistics showed that over 9,000 child sexual offences had an online element in England and Wales between October 2017 and September 2018. The NSPCC is urging Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Digital Secretary [...]
Effective action taken by leaders and managers at Tower Hamlets following the August monitoring visit has led to considerable improvements in the quality of social work practice for children in care, Ofsted has said.
Permanence planning for those children who are unable to live safely with their birth parents is being progressed more quickly. All permanence [...]
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