Training for schools to combat bullying
The government has announced further support and training for schools to help pupils combat bullying, learn to value each other’s differences, and improve wellbeing for staff.
To mark Anti-Bullying Week, the Department for Education has confirmed £1m funding for five leading organisations to support schools and colleges in championing tolerance and respect as part of [...]
Lack of capacity in foster care sector placing children at risk
Vulnerable children are missing out on the care and support they need due to a continued lack of capacity in the foster care sector, Ofsted has warned.
The numbers of fostering households and foster carers in England are at their highest ever levels, the inspectorate highlights, yet the increases are not keeping up with demand [...]
More than 600 survivors in Scotland have received Advanced Payments
More than 600 survivors of non-recent abuse have received payments from the Advance Payment Scheme in Scotland, the Scottish government has revealed.
In response to a Freedom of Information request, the Scottish government said that as of 13 August 2021, there had been 757 applications made to the Advance Payment Scheme and payments have been [...]
Fifteen times more child abuse content found online than 10 years ago
Internet Watch Foundation analysts are finding more than fifteen times as much child sexual abuse material on the internet as they were ten years ago, it has emerged.
Experts are battling a “tidal-wave of criminal material” and are calling for the government to make protecting children a priority.
CEO of the IWF Susie Hargreaves OBE said: [...]
Action plan at Oakhill STC to address failings
Children held at Oakhill Secure Training Centre will benefit from more education and time out of cell as part of measures to improve the failings at the centre, the government has announced.
Prisons Minister Victoria Atkins has outlined urgent action to address the ‘unacceptable’ failings at the STC in Milton Keynes run by G4S.
The move [...]
Sector responds to proposals for National Care Service
CELCIS has raised concerns over the inclusion of children’s social work and children’s services in a National Care Service.
As we reported last month, the Scottish government is proposing a National Care Service incorporating children and adult social work to “to consistently deliver high quality services to every single person who needs them, across [...]
