Greater stability needed for children in care
It is more common for children to have a change of social worker in a given year than to have the same worker for the whole of that time, a report by Barnardo’s has found.
On 31 March 2019, the Stability Index showed that:
One in 10 children in care experienced two or more placement moves [...]
Inquiry launched into behaviour and mental health in schools
An inquiry into behaviour and mental health in schools has been launched by the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition.
The coalition wants to explore the links between mental health and behaviour, how current school policies on behaviour are impacting young people and their families, and to understand what role a whole school approach [...]
National Register of home schooled children outlined in Schools Bill
Ofsted will be given greater powers to crack down on ‘unregistered schools’ operating illegally under measures outlined in the Schools Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech.
The Schools Bill will support schools to raise standards, strengthen attendance and improve safeguarding for children wherever they are educated. It will introduce a register for children being home [...]
48 incidents of abuse in care system should be made public
The Chair of Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel is being urged to publish a report detailing 48 separate incidents where looked after children entered care following abuse or neglect and then died in care, or were seriously harmed.
Annie Hudson, Chair, Child Safeguarding Practice Review PanelLed by Article 39, more than 30 signatories including BASW, [...]
Child Practice Review into Logan Mwangi’s death
A Child Practice Review into the death of Logan Mwangi will be carried out by a Child Safeguarding Board in Wales after three people were convicted of murder following the death of the five year-old child.
Logan Mwangi’s body was found by police officers in the River Ogmore in Bridgend at around 6am on Saturday [...]
Number of children in custody set to double by 2024
Forty per cent of children in custody in March 2021 were on remand awaiting sentence, the highest level in 10 years, a report by the National Audit Office has warned.
However, in that year, almost three-quarters of children remanded in custody did not receive a custodial sentence, the report into children in custody highlighted.
The average number [...]
