There needs to be a greater understanding of traumatic bereavement, both now, and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, charities have warned.
The UK Trauma Council, along with Child Bereavement UK, Winston’s Wish and the Childhood Bereavement Network, highlighted that there have been more than 120,000 deaths in the UK as a result of COVID-19. As a result, [...]
Children’s charity the NSPCC has seen a record number of adults contact its helpline during the last year as callers reported concerns about the health and behaviour of parents.
The charity’s helpline service received nearly 85,000 contacts between April 2020 and March 2021, a 23% increase on the previous year. Out of these calls, 47% led [...]
The government has been threatened with legal action in order to protect the rights of 16 and 17-year-olds children in care.
In February, following a consultation, the Department for Education confirmed that local authorities would be banned from placing children aged 15-years-old and younger in unregulated accommodation including bedsits, hostels and flats.
However, children's rights [...]
A lack of trust in professionals and institutions prevents victims and survivors of sexual abuse from ethnic minority backgrounds from disclosing or reporting abuse, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has found.
The IICSA report ‘Engagement with support services from ethnic minority communities’ found that victims and survivors from ethnic minorities do not trust social [...]
Psychologists have reiterated the importance of outdoor play after The British Children’s Play Survey found that children are being held back from outdoor play until late childhood.
The survey, which was carried out in April 2020 with more than 1,900 parents, asked about the play of children aged 5 to 11. While parents said that on [...]
Plus - Language and communication skills affected by disruption to schooling
Primary-aged school children have made ‘virtually no progress’ studying at home due to school closures for COVID-19 restrictions, research has found.
Researchers at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science found that school closures in the last year have led to serious learning losses, with [...]
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