Shockingly poor mental health services for children highlighted
Only one in five children with mental health problems received support last year, the children’s commissioner for England has warned.
Anne Longfield’s report suggests that just over 200,000 children received CAMHS treatment last year, which equates to 2.6% of the age 5-17 population.
“Comparing this to recent research on the number of children with a mental health [...]
Special report: The state of children’s services
Recent reports into the state of children’s services have highlighted the loss of early help and preventive services, and how this is contributing to more children in need falling through our supposed safety net, BASW has warned.
In July, the Children’s Commissioner for England published for the first time a report into the scale of vulnerability [...]
More than half a million children are vulnerable
Children’s commissioner shines light on extent of vulnerability among young people in England
More than half a million children in England are so vulnerable that the state has to step in, a report by the children’s commissioner has warned.
Anne Longfield has stated in her report into children’s vulnerability that 580,000 children – equivalent to the population [...]
Martin Narey among new recruits to advise children’s commissioner
Children’s commissioner Ann Longfield has appointed a number of high-profile figures in social care, the government and the media to provide her office with strategic advice.
Government advisor Martin Narey, former Association of Directors of Children’s Services president, Alison O'Sullivan, Behaviour and Insight leader, David Halpern and BBC Children's Chief, Alice Webb are the new recruits [...]
School nurses forced into child protection work
High thresholds for children’s services means school nurses are increasingly taking on child protection work, children’s commissioner report finds
School nurses are being forced to undertake child protection work because local authority thresholds are so high they cannot refer on to children’s services.
A survey carried out for the children’s commissioner found that when school nurses [...]
Children’s commissioner urges ‘stocktake’ of children’s services
Government should measure the impact of its decisions on young people, warns Anne Longfield
The government should carry out an “urgent stocktake” of its spending on children’s services to ascertain how cuts are impacting on children, Anne Longfield has urged.
Addressing the Education Select Committee, the children’s commissioner called on the government to extend its family test [...]
