April 2016
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National Deaf Children’s Society calls for review after abuse allegations
The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) has called for a government review into the way the most vulnerable children and young people are cared ...
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Call to reduce stigma of youth homelessness
A charity has called on policy-makers and commissioners to reduce the stigma around youth homelessness so that young people are more willing to seek h...
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Supporting children’s brain development in the first five years
A new briefing from Save the Children, Lighting Up Young Brains, looks at the science behind young children’s brain development and its rel...
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Four in 10 adults discriminated against as children
A Save the Children survey has revealed that almost 40% of adults say their childhoods were blighted by discrimination because of where they were born...
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Government plans to address challenges in the adoption system
Adoption: a vision for change by the Department for Education sets out the government’s plans for the adoption system over the next four ye...
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Children ‘criminalised’ in care homes
Police are being called to children’s homes thousands of times a year and children are being wrongly ‘criminalised’, according to the Howard Lea...
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Views wanted on supporting carers
The Department of Health is developing a new strategy for carers that sets out how more can be done to support them – and they are asking for views ...
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Strategy to tackle abuse and exploitation of children globally
Keeping Children Safe, the global child safeguarding network, has launched a three-year strategy to tackle abuse and exploitation of children around t...
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