Extending the school day would tackle childcare challenge, says children’s commissioner
Extending the school day would be a solution to childcare challenges facing parents, the children’s commissioner for England has proposed.
In Dame Rachel de Souza’s report on her vision for childcare, she says that making childcare manageable and affordable by providing an extended school day would ensure that children can be cared for on school [...]
Why I don’t agree with celebrating Black History Month
Independent Social Worker Andrea Goddard, who has more than 20 years’ experience working with vulnerable children and families including 12 years frontline child protection work, outlines why she doesn't agree with Black History Month.
I don’t agree with celebrating Black History Month during October, because it should not be restricted to be celebrated in one [...]
World Mental Health Day: Young People’s mental health services must be transformed
The legacy of COVID combined with the cost-of-living crisis will be a tsunami of mental health problems emerging across the country among children and young people unless systems are put in place to ensure that people with mental ill health get the right support at the right time.
As we mark World Mental Health Day, [...]
Research launched into experiences of kinship carers from ethnic minorities
The charity Kinship is to lead major new research on the experiences of kinship families from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, it has been announced during Kinship Care Week.
During the week Monday 3rd to Friday 7th October there has been celebration for the amazing role that kinship carers across England and Wales play in [...]
“Not enough being done” to ensure children are safe online
The children’s commissioner for England has said that she is “simply not satisfied” that enough is being done to keep children safe online.
Dame Rachel de SouzaDame Rachel de Souza’s comments were made after it emerged in an inquest into Molly Russell’s death that unsafe online content contributed "in a more than minimal way" to [...]
Family support encouraged as deprivation of liberty cases involving children soar
There have been 237 applications to the national deprivation of liberty (DoLs) court in the first two months of its operation seeking authorisation to deprive children of their liberty – 101 applications in July and 136 in August.
The President of the Family Division launched the DoLs court based at the Royal Courts of [...]
