The government should focus on helping councils and independent fostering agencies (IFA) to work more closely together ...

Emergency treatment becoming necessary because of missed medical appointments or a failure to take medicine are among the “heartbreaking" and worsening impacts of poverty on child health, a survey of ...

At CYP Now's recent Future of Youth Work conference I took part in a panel discussion on the role of youth voice in shaping ...

Parents are influencing policy and politics, and driving innovation in practice. No longer passive and grateful participants ...

Children’s mental health charities have highlighted their “deep concern” over the government’s scaled back plans for Young ...

A National Lottery-funded youth voice initiative is to be “protected and strengthened” after leaving its base at a now-closed ...

Youth activist group Bite Back have taken their fight to ban junk food advertising to parliament, after two of the UK’s ...

The government has launched a £500 million early intervention fund aiming to support 200,000 children and families, as part ...

The rate of complaints about special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services upheld by the Local Government and Ombudsman (LGO) has risen to 94%.

The president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has backed government plans to reduce the use of ...

A think-tank is warning of an “inequality crisis” in early child development after research found continued widening in the attainment gap between disadvantaged five-year-olds and their more affluent ...

Pava is a synthetic pepper spray used by law enforcement and prison officers to incapacitate individuals during ...