Co-production vital across child services
The first session of this year's Conservative Party conference is set to focus on education, housing and political participation. All three policy issues have, in recent years, under the same party's watch, produced deep fissures of concern, pushing many young people to the margins and causing anxiety, frustration and sometimes alienation. At the heart of this lies a dramatic deterioration in the subjective emotional wellbeing of children and young people, who are struggling to find out where they fit in the modern world. The Children's Society Good Childhood report 2017 is testament to that.
Senior Tories call for cabinet-level families post
More than 50 Tory MPs and peers are calling on the government to create a cabinet-level families minister post to better co-ordinate family policy across departments.
Councils look to unite to deliver children's social care, survey finds
A growing number of councils plan to join forces to run children's social care services, a government survey of children's services leaders has found.
Ched Evans case prompts youth sports partnership
A top flight Premier League football club is working with a youth sexual health charity so that young players can understand consent following the Ched Evans rape case.
Charity highlights impact of repeated moves for children living in poverty
The stress and uncertainty of repeatedly packing up their lives and moving home is becoming a "worryingly normal" part of life for some children growing up in poverty, a charity has warned.
Child sex offences hit all-time high
The number of child sex offences recorded by police forces across the UK have hit a new high, figures obtained by the NSPCC have shown.
Longfield raises concerns over young carer support
Councils' assessment needs to be improved, with a third of them rejected for support without even being checked, the children's commissioner for England has said.
How bereaved children learn how to manage feelings
Programme helps bereaved children cope with the death of a close relative.
Ofsted rates third council 'inadequate' in space of week
West Berkshire Council has become the third local authority in the space of a week to have its children's services department rated "inadequate" after Ofsted inspectors found serious failures in services.
Skills for the Job: Promoting sexual identity tolerance
Children's professionals have a duty to celebrate diversity and educate children and young people to respect same-sex relationships.
Multi-agency response needed to tackle female genital mutilation
Guidance issued by the Department of Health outlines the type of issues commissioners need to take into account when setting up services across different parts of the country to treat and support FGM victims.
Research Report: Patterns and Trends in Sources of Information About Sex Among Young People
A team of researchers set out to discover whether young people have changed the ways they find out about sex.