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Government sets out junk food ban legislation 03/12/2024 Junk food ad ban legislation designed to curb childhood obesity has been set out by the Government.
500% rise in unregistered and illegal home use 28/11/2024 The number of vulnerable children in care placed in unregistered and illegal homes has shot up by 500% in three years, data released by Ofsted has shown.
Councils will need 13,000 new social workers over next decade 27/11/2024 Councils in England will need to hire 13,000 more social workers over the next 10 years amid growing need for the care and support of young people, according to new research.
Council’s poor understanding of SEND ‘incomprehensible’, says Ombudsman 19/11/2024 Worcestershire County Council has committed to providing better training after an investigation revealed it had failed a child with special needs.
A third of children in care placed 20 miles from home 11/11/2024 A third of young people in council care were placed in accommodation more than 20 miles from their local area last year, a new report has revealed.
Data map reveals ‘stark disparities’ in children’s mental health 07/11/2024 Local government policymakers have been urged to take immediate action after a data map revealed ‘stark disparities’ in children’s mental health across UK.
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Councils urged to improve adoption processes 07/11/2024 Local authorities in England need to learn from past failures to get support for adoptive families right, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman says.
Biggest barrier to inclusive education is lack of funding, report finds 05/11/2024 Schools in the capital must become ‘genuinely inclusive’ to improve outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), a new report has argued.
Council to celebrate children’s successes 29/10/2024 Medway Council has launched a new initiative to celebrate the achievements of local children.
Many children not getting the right support, care regulator warns 25/10/2024 Many children and young people are not currently getting the support they need, England’s health and social care regulator has warned.
First national guide on kinship care published 10/10/2024 The first national guide on kinship care, designed to help local leaders in children’s services support kinship carers, has been published.
LGA: ‘Emergency cash injection’ needed to tackle child abuse 08/10/2024 Local authority leaders have called for emergency support for children’s social care as figures reveal councils investigate 600 child protection cases a day.
Time to axe ‘contradictory’ care laws, minister says 07/10/2024 It is ‘high time’ to axe outdated language and contradictory rules from laws on disabled children’s social care, the families minster has said.
Charity says 10,000 children have fallen into poverty under Labour 07/10/2024 The two-child benefit cap has pushed 10,000 children into poverty since the Labour Government took office, new research has found.
Lack of support leaves two-fifths of parents to teach their disabled child 03/10/2024 Some 200,000 children are being failed by England’s special educational needs system as their parents fight to get the right support, according to new research.
Norfolk faces £45m budget gap 01/10/2024 Norfolk County Council is planning millions of pounds of cuts it does ‘not want to make’ in the face of a £44.75m deficit in its budget for next year.
Labour pledges £15m to support 300 new nurseries 26/09/2024 Three hundred nurseries will be opened by next September to help address the rising demand for childcare, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson announces.
Mayors back Jamie Oliver’s call to ban junk-food advertising 25/09/2024 Nine UK mayors have signed up to celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s campaign to ban junk-food advertising.
Hampshire CC approves £35m residential care contract 24/09/2024 Hampshire County Council has given the green light to a £35m contract aimed at securing residential care capacity for children in care with complex needs.
‘Shocking lack of urgency’ to trace children missing from education 10/09/2024 More than 11,500 children in England went missing from education within a year, the children’s commissioner has found.
Derbyshire could charge parents for children in care 09/09/2024 Derbyshire County Council is considering charging parents whose children are taken into care as it faces ‘unprecedented’ financial difficulty.
Nine in ten felt lonely as a child in care 09/09/2024 More than nine in 10 (91%) care-experienced adults in the UK felt lonely and isolated during their time as a child in care, research has revealed.
Social worker in Kirstie Allsopp referral ‘did nothing wrong’ 29/08/2024 The council worker who responded to a social services referral involving the teenage son of celebrity presenter Kirstie Allsopp has been defended by a major social work association.
Child neglect ‘normalised’, professionals warn 28/08/2024 Child neglect has become ‘normalised’ amid financial strain on families and a lack of early support, a major children’s charity has heard.
Quarter of councils not ready for childcare expansion 27/08/2024 A quarter of councils lack confidence in their ability to expand Government-funded childcare support in September, Local Government Association reveals.
Children face holiday hunger without support fund 21/08/2024 Children in more than a quarter of council areas could go hungry during the upcoming school holidays if the Household Support Fund (HSF) is not extended.
Landmark report finds SEND system ‘broken’ 25/07/2024 Major reforms introduced a decade ago have failed to improve educational outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), a report has found.
Council resists calls for leader to quit after critical SEND report 15/07/2024 West Northamptonshire Council has resisted calls for its head of children’s services to quit following a damning Ofsted and CQC report.
Council helps investigate after two children from same school die 11/07/2024 Liverpool City Council is working with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) after two children from the same school died.
Councils create largest fostering partnership 09/07/2024 Twenty councils in the south east of England have formed the country’s largest local authority fostering partnership in a bid to boost the number of carers in the region.
Improving air quality in and around schools 08/07/2024 Megan Bennett, product marketing manager at Nuaire, looks at how poor air quality impacts children at school and what steps can be taken to improve it.
Middlesbrough to trial auto-enrolment for free school meals 28/06/2024 Eligible children in Middlesbrough will be automatically signed up to receive free school meals from September.
Councils’ confidence for childcare roll-out ‘worryingly low’ 27/06/2024 Local authorities in England have raised concerns that they will be unable to meet demand in the next phase of the expansion of free childcare.
Leicester urged not to close half its family hubs 26/06/2024 Parents have launched a petition calling on Leicester City Council to drop plans to close six of its 12 children, young people and families centres.
Council to restrict new takeaway sites 20/06/2024 New measures to limit the development of new hot food takeaway sites have been introduced by Newcastle City Council.
Decades of ‘neglect’ have left children shorter and overweight 19/06/2024 Children in England are getting shorter, more obese and sicker because of poor diets, food insecurity and poverty, health experts warn.
Call for urgent action on childhood obesity 18/06/2024 ‘Urgent and decisive’ action is needed to combat rising levels of childhood obesity, a public health director has argued.
NextGov: Scrapping the two-child benefit cap 17/06/2024 Rachel Walters, ECPC, and Amanda Bailey, NECPC, argue the next government should scrap the two-child limit on benefit payments.
Councils looking after record 576k children with SEND 13/06/2024 Local authorities are looking after record numbers of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), council chiefs warn.
Annual welfare spending to rise by £20bn 13/06/2024 Welfare spending is set to increase by £20.8bn a year by the end of the next parliament, a think-tank has found.
Child poverty ‘directly correlated’ with two-child benefit cap 06/06/2024 Child poverty is ‘directly and strongly’ correlated with the percentage of children affected by the two-child benefit cap within a constituency, analysis has found.
Autism care plans in North Yorkshire rise by almost 400% 31/05/2024 The number of children and young people in North Yorkshire who have autism as a primary need on their care plan has risen by 387% since 2015.
Child pedestrian casualties on England’s roads up 16% 31/05/2024 Nearly 50 child pedestrians are killed or injured on England’s roads every day, a new study has revealed.
Councils team up for new fostering initiative 31/05/2024 Eleven local authorities in the East of England have teamed up as part of a new initiative aimed at recruiting more people to become foster carers.
Nearly 85,000 childcare places needed, MPs warn 29/05/2024 Around 84,500 more childcare places and 40,000 extra staff are required by September 2025 if the Government is to deliver on its childcare support plans.
Eight councils launch fostering hub 28/05/2024 A fostering hub has been created by eight councils in Cheshire and Merseyside with the aim of ‘urgently’ recruiting carers.
Hull rolls out tool to tackle school absence 24/05/2024 Hull City Council is providing schools with an early intervention tool aimed to boosting pupil attendance.
Safeguarding panel calls for register of home-educated children 15/05/2024 An expert child safeguarding panel has joined calls for a statutory register of children who are electively home educated.
Brum council-owned company reprimanded for data breach 14/05/2024 A Birmingham City Council-owned company has been reprimanded following a data breach that saw the personal information of a child disclosed to another family.
What do safety valve agreements mean for children with SEND? 14/05/2024 Catriona Moore, policy manager at SEND legal advice charity IPSEA, looks at the impact of safety valve agreements on local SEND provision.
SEND experience in Bury has been ‘poor for too long’ 09/05/2024 Ofsted has found ‘widespread and/or systemic failings’, its lowest rating, in Bury’s special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision.
Government announces 16 new special free schools 09/05/2024 New schools for 2,000 children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are to open in 16 areas across England.
£101m boost for new music hubs 08/05/2024 A ‘new generation’ of music hubs will receive £101m to provide music education to young people across England.
Record 145,800 children live in temporary accommodation 30/04/2024 There are 145,800 children who are homeless and in temporary accommodation, new government figures have shown.
Schools in disrepair due to funding ‘failure’, union warns 29/04/2024 More than four-fifths of headteachers (83%) have said they do not have enough money to maintain their school buildings.
Two-fifths of children face barriers to education 26/04/2024 Millions of pupils are struggling to learn because of unstable family environments, mental health challenges and poor attendance, a major children’s charity has warned.
Early years roll-out will get ‘significantly more challenging’ 24/04/2024 Just one in 10 councils are confident they can provide enough early years places to deliver the Government’s childcare expansion on time, a spending watchdog has warned.
Increasing number of Coventry children not in school 17/04/2024 A growing number of children in Coventry are not going to primary school due to their parents' reluctance to accept places that have been offered.
Seven areas selected for £45m child protection trial 11/04/2024 Seven more areas in England have been selected to trial the Families First for Children (FFC) scheme, a £45m child protection programme.
Lancashire plans to build 15 new children's homes 08/04/2024 Up to 15 new children’s homes, which aim to provide the 'right care in the right place at the right time', could be created across Lancashire.
Union criticises Government’s ‘shameful’ SEND support 04/04/2024 Teachers and support staff are ‘losing faith’ in the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system due to inadequate resources, a union has warned.
Social workers’ concerns not addressed, union warns 02/04/2024 Welfare concerns raised by social workers are not being dealt with, putting vulnerable people at risk, a union has warned.
Record 4.3m children in poverty 22/03/2024 More than 4m children are living in poverty, with an additional 100,000 children being pushed into hardship over the last year, Government figures reveal.
Absence fines without tackling causes 'will not work' 29/02/2024 Plans to boost school attendance do not address the wider factors that contribute to persistent absence, a think-tank and council bosses have warned.
Over 10,000 children missing from education system 22/02/2024 Local authorities in England have no idea what has happened to over 10,000 children who have left state education.
Council to revisit how it calculated allowances to 300 families 21/02/2024 An investigation has revealed that Devon County Council has been calculating incorrectly allowances for families who look after children as special guardians.
Children’s needs not prioritised, service leaders warn 21/02/2024 Children’s services directors have raised concerns that government policy does not prioritise children, while their previous asks of Whitehall ‘remain unaddressed’.
The joys of inclusive play 12/02/2024 Nathalie Esfandi, co-founder of the Fair Play playground, discusses the important role local councils can play in creating inclusive play environments.
Council chiefs call for oral health investment 08/02/2024 Council leaders have called for investment in oral health after research found that last year there were 33,000 operations to remove rotten teeth in children.
Children with SEND just ‘badly behaved’, councillors claim 07/02/2024 Warwickshire CC has launched an investigation after a video revealed councillors making disparaging remarks about children with special educational needs.
Emergency mental healthcare referrals for children up 50% 07/02/2024 Psychiatrists call for more support for young people as an analysis reveals the number of children referred for emergency mental healthcare has increased 50%.
Crisis support requests quadruple in five years, FOI reveals 06/02/2024 Applications to council crisis funds for help with beds for children have more than quadrupled in half a decade, a children’s charity has revealed.
Suffolk councillors resign over ‘widespread’ SEND failings 05/02/2024 Three councillors have resigned their posts at Suffolk CC after a damning report found there were ‘widespread’ failings affecting SEND outcomes.
Campaign to raise data and safeguarding awareness launched 01/02/2024 Local authorities and social service providers have been urged to do more to raise awareness about responsible data sharing to protect children from harm.
Children with SEND impacted by psychologist shortage 31/01/2024 The lives of children with SEND are being negatively affected by the shortage of educational psychologists, the local government ombudsman has warned.
Disposable vapes to be banned 29/01/2024 Disposable vapes will be banned in the UK to protect children’s health, the Government announced today.
More than 1,000 child refugees placed in adult accommodation 23/01/2024 Child refugees arriving in the UK alone are exposed to harm and abuse in adult accommodation because of the Home Office’s flawed age assessment system, according to a new report.
The new Centre for Young Lives 22/01/2024 Anne Longfield CBE, the chair of the Commission on Young Lives, discusses the launch of the Centre for Young Lives this month.
Abuse main driver of children’s social care demand 17/01/2024 Domestic abuse and violence is the most prevalent category of demand for children’s social care services, a groundbreaking new study has revealed.
MPs to debate free school meals extension 10/01/2024 MPs are set to debate the extension of the free school meals scheme today as tens of thousands of eligible disabled children miss out on extra support.
LGA calls for family hubs extension 10/01/2024 Council bosses have called for an extension of the family hubs programme after the Government announced that all local authorities involved in the scheme offer access to a centre.
Half of teachers work with homeless children 22/12/2023 The ‘nightmare of child homelessness’ is damaging children’s education as they suffer exhaustion, hunger and poor mental health, Shelter has warned.
Health chiefs back call for more gambling restrictions 21/12/2023 Local health chiefs have backed a call from MPs urging the Government to do more to minimise children’s exposure to gambling advertising.
Child trafficking victim owed back payments 19/12/2023 A child trafficking victim is entitled to back payments after the Home Office and Barnet Council left him without adequate care and support, High Court finds.
Oxfordshire publishes SEND ‘action plan’ 19/12/2023 Oxfordshire County Council has published an ‘action plan’ for improving care for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Online Safety – Time to Act 08/12/2023 Schools still have work to do despite onus being put on online platforms to conform to new safeguarding legislation, says safeguarding expert Mark Bentley.
Cruelty to children doubles in five years 08/12/2023 The number of reported cases of children in England being subjected to cruelty or neglect has doubled in the last five years, a children’s charity has warned.
Home Secretary acted ‘irrationally’ over National Transfer Scheme 29/11/2023 The Home Secretary’s powers have been exercised ‘irrationally’ when it comes to the decision-making process in relation to the National Transfer Scheme (NTS), the High Court has ruled.
LGA lays bare ‘astronomical’ care costs 29/11/2023 There has been a 1,000% rise over five years in the number of children’s social care placements that cost councils £10,000 or more a week, the Local Government Association (LGA) has found.
Plan for schools needs local government ‘at its heart’ 29/11/2023 England’s children’s services chiefs have set out a future vision to fix an ‘incoherent and fragmented’ education system.
School support staff paying for pupils’ essentials 24/11/2023 The cost-of-living crisis is forcing school support staff to use their own money to help pay for pupils’ food and clothing, union reveals.
MPs slam ‘beyond unacceptable’ condition of schools 20/11/2023 Thousands of children are learning in potentially unsafe buildings, with MPs ‘extremely concerned’ about the Department for Education’s understanding of the risks, a new report says.
Councils call for emergency school transport funding 20/11/2023 ‘Spiralling’ transport costs for children with special educational needs are threatening the financial stability of England’s largest councils, according to a report.
Homeless children left without care 16/11/2023 Almost 6,500 16- and 17-year-olds presented as homeless to their local authority in England last year, according to new data.
South Gloucestershire families not getting agreed respite 08/11/2023 Almost a third of families with children with special needs in South Gloucestershire have not been receiving sufficient respite care, an investigation has found.
One million UK children in poverty 24/10/2023 There were 3.8 million people, including a million children, living in destitution in the UK in 2022, with state support ‘relatively absent’, a new report has found.
Families with children struggling most with living costs 18/10/2023 Action for Children have found that one in five homes with children, a total of 1.5 million households, are struggling with ‘serious financial difficulties’.
Child poverty warning over possible benefit freeze 16/10/2023 A freeze on working-age benefits would push 400,000 children into poverty, new research has found.
Councils 'vital' to social prescribing success 09/10/2023 Children’s charity Barnardo’s has said local authorities are ‘vital’ to the success of social prescribing as it called for a national strategy.

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Bristol City Council

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Bristol City Council

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BG13

Bristol City Council

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