Children should be at heart of recovery process from Coronavirus
More than 150 organisations have urged the government to place children at the heart of the recovery process from the COVID-19 pandemic.
A statement from the 150 organisations, which was coordinated by Action for Children, Barnardo’s, National Children’s Bureau, NSPCC and The Children’s Society, says that this generation of children face unprecedented threats to their childhoods [...]
Children’s directors respond to charities’ concerns over their ability to cope following lockdown
Children’s services leaders have responded to claims made yesterday by a group of children’s charities that they are ill-prepared for the pressures they will face post lockdown.
Years of under-investment have resulted in children’s services fire-fighting and unprepared for the “torrent of extra challenges” posed by COVID-19, the charity’s Barnardo’s. Action for Children, The Children’s Society, [...]
Children’s charities warn that children’s services are ill-prepared to cope with challenges posed by COVID-19
Local authority children’s services are ill-prepared to deal with the challenges posed by the coronavirus lockdown, a group of children’s charities have warned.
Years of under-investment have resulted in children’s services fire-fighting and unprepared for the “torrent of extra challenges” posed by COVID-19, analysis by Barnardo’s. Action for Children, The Children’s Society, NSPCC and the National [...]
50,000 missing from education
Almost 50,000 children were reported as missing from education in 2016-17, a report by the National Children’s Bureau has found.
Results of a Freedom of Information request published by the National Children’s Bureau suggests that 49,187 children were missing education at some point in 2016-17, raising fresh concerns over the welfare of this group of children. [...]
Government urged to create a wider definition of children missing education
The government has been urged to take urgent action to help identify and support the thousands of children who drop out of education, often for months or years at a time.
NCB has published a report which highlights a Freedom of Information (FOI) request carried out in 2014 which estimated that over 14,800 children were [...]
