MPs launch inquiry into government’s progress on improving children’s mental health
Progress made by government on its ambitions to improve mental health services for children and young people is to be examined by a committee of MPs.
The Health and Social Care Committee has launched a Children and Young People’s Mental Health inquiry which will consider measures set out by the government in its 2017 green paper [...]
COVID exacerbates mental health problems in young people
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to exacerbate existing mental health and wellbeing problems among young people, research by The Prince’s Trust and the Education Policy Institute has found.
A major study on the mental health and wellbeing of young people in Generation Z, based on data from the Millennium Cohort Study, reveals new [...]
Mental health services are not meeting the needs of many hundreds of thousands of children
The expansion of children’s mental health services over the past four years is welcome but, such was the poor starting point, services are still nowhere near meeting the needs of many hundreds of thousands of children.
This is the stark warning from the children’s commissioner for England in her fourth annual report on the state of [...]
Sibling abuse is ‘most common form of intra-familial abuse’
Sibling abuse is the most common type of intrafamilial abuse, a report has stated.
Sexual abuse involving child siblings is thought to be the most common form of intra-familial child sexual abuse, perhaps up to three times as common as sexual abuse of a child by a parent, the report by the Centre of Expertise on [...]
Predatory groomers ‘grave threat’ as children not in schools
Organised “communities of sex predators” will be looking to take advantage of children being away from school and spending more time online to exploit more children and to share and distribute child sexual abuse material online.
The Internet Watch Foundation has reported processing record numbers of reports of online child sexual abuse and warned that predatory [...]
Almost 80% of social workers have increased concerns over ability to safeguard children
More than 65% of social workers in children’s services have seen an increase in the number of referrals and/or their caseload since the return to schools and colleges for autumn 2020, a survey by BASW has found.
At the same time, almost 80% of social workers encountered more difficulties in accessing essential support services for the [...]
