Urgent national review of children’s mental health needed
An urgent national review into children’s mental health has been urged by the new president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services.
In his inaugural speech, Steve Crocker said that the alarm has been sounding for some time on the growing mental health concerns amongst children and young people, longer waiting lists and more [...]
Babies ‘don’t respond to facial expressions’ following COVID
Young children are experiencing problems ranging from speech and language development to making friends following the pandemic.
A report by Ofsted has revealed how young children’s communication and language development has been impacted, with many providers noticing delays in speech and language. Others said babies have struggled to respond to basic facial expressions, which may [...]
Social workers need mental health support
High caseloads, high stress, and a lack of mental health support for social workers are key challenges in the social work profession contributing to a high turnover rate, a report by the Independent review into children’s social care has found.
Mental health support for social work professionals needed addressing to help reduce burnout, stress and [...]
Police response to CSE to be investigated
The police’s response to Child Sexual Exploitation is to be inspected by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.
The Home Secretary has instructed the national inspection to ensure learning from past mistakes around Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) is being applied by police forces across the country, so that they can respond [...]
Kinship carers need financial support, access to advice and support
All kinship carers should receive the financial support they need, a charity has argued.
There are more than 162,400 children in kinship care in England and Wales, nearly double the 88,115 children in local authority care. Not only do children have better experiences and outcomes in kinship care, but recent economic analysis has found that [...]
Third of children worry about finances as cost of living crisis deepens
Almost half of children from families with low incomes worry about their children’s finances, research has revealed.
Action for Children found that almost a third of children (30%) worrying about their family having enough money to live comfortably as the cost of living crisis deepens and this figure raises to 47% for children from low [...]
