Action for Children

The WillisPalmer Christmas Tree Decorating Competition 2022

09/12/2022
Est. Reading: 1 minute
Who Wins..? You Decide!

We have two Christmas trees at the WillisPalmer office and this year the staff upstairs are going to compete with the staff downstairs to see who has the best decorated tree... and we want YOU to decide on the winner!

Tree 1 - Downstairs 

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Children’s charities: The next PM must implement care review recommendations

19/08/2022
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

Leading children’s charities have urged the next prime minister to place vulnerable children at the heart of government.

In an open letter to the final two candidates hoping to become the next leader of the Conservative Party and the UK’s next Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, the charities warn that spending on late [...]

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Third of children worry about finances as cost of living crisis deepens

29/03/2022
Est. Reading: 2 minutes

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 [...]

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Lack of early intervention leads to re-referrals

03/03/2022
Est. Reading: 4 minutes

An estimated 64,000 children a year are missing out on early help services and then being re-referred to children’s social care within 12 months, a report by Action for Children warns.

There were at least 320,000 missed opportunities to provide early help services to children who were then re-referred to social care within 12 months, [...]

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Parents facing burnout following pandemic

08/11/2021
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

More than eight in 10 parents are showing at least one warning sign of parental burnout following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unhappy husband and father with his family at home

Action for Children research of more than 2,000 parents shows that 82% of parents are showing one warning sign at least of parental burnout. More than 50% [...]

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Spending on early help services halves in decade

21/07/2021
Est. Reading: 4 minutes

Spending on early intervention for services has halved over the last 10 years, charities have warned.

Between 2010 and 2020, local authorities in England reduced spending on early intervention services from £3.6bn to £1.8bn, analysis of council budgets by a group of leading children’s charities has revealed.

The most deprived local authorities in the UK reduced early [...]

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