Sixty Second Interview with Rachel Holt
For many of our regular contacts, you will have spoken to the lovely Rachel Holt, our Referrals Manager at WillisPalmer.
Here she gives her answers to our quick fire questions with two versions – what she ‘should’ say and what she ‘really wants’ to say in brackets! 😊.
What three words best describe you?
Positive, Understanding, Warm. [...]
Peer on peer sexual abuse rises
Reports of peer-on-peer sexual abuse have risen, the NSPCC has warned.
The child protection charity said calls to their helpline about young people experiencing harmful sexual behaviour had increased significantly following the Everyone’s Invited movement which enabled victims to anonymously post their experiences of sexual abuse on the website gained more than 11,000 posts, [...]
Safeguards needed to prevent homelessness among care leavers
Stronger safeguards could protect young care leavers from homelessness, a report by Just for Kids Law in collaboration with New Horizons Youth Centre and Youth Legal.
The report argues that by extending priority need for homeless care leavers up to the age of 25 and abolishing becoming “intentionally homeless” for care leavers would help care [...]
Shortage of foster carers leads to sibling separation and far away placements
Children in care are being placed with foster families away from their local communities, and sibling groups are being separated, the UK’s leading fostering charity has warned.
During Foster Care Fortnight, The Fostering Network says that a lack of foster carers is resulting in brothers and sisters being placed in separate placements while other children [...]
Care Review needs to protect non-British children in care
The Care Review will be failing some of the most vulnerable children in the care system today if it does not challenge the government’s increasing refusal to protect the rights of non-British children and young people under children in care law, policy and practice.
The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium states that every child in [...]
Expansion of influencer culture places children at risk of exploitation
The rapid expansion in influencer culture online has put child influencers at risk of exploitation and where child viewers are placed in an environment where not everything is always as it seems, a committee of MPs has warned.
The Digital, Media, Culture and Sport Committee says that regulation and employment protection has failed to keep [...]
