The rise in the number of children with special educational needs and disabilities is driving up the cost to councils of ...

This month’s latest funding developments including grants to tackle online harms in London, summer holiday food schemes at ...

Professionals need more training in spotting the signs of child sexual abuse (CSA), experts say, after latest research ...

Most English local authorities do not know whether they have sufficient childcare provision during the six-week summer ...

Analysis of data reveals how thousands of children are spending months in bed & breakfast (B&B) accommodation unsuitable for meeting their basic needs and leading to calls for stronger measures to ...

The Department for Education has appointed care-experienced broadcaster, Ashley John-Baptiste to lead a review into the deaths of vulnerable young people leaving the care system. Ashley John-Baptiste: ...

Just four out of 10 youth workers feel secure about the future of their role and only two-thirds are confident they will be working in the sector in a year’s time, a poll has revealed. The survey ...

Education practitioners have been urged to promote the benefit of jobs in the green economy so that disadvantaged young people do not miss out on careers in the sector. Careers advisors should ...

A parliamentary inquiry has called for planning rules to be strengthened to stop fast-food outlets opening near schools, ...

Mark Else, deputy safeguarding lead and welfare officer at Bromley Beacon Academy, outlines findings from research on the educational disadvantages experienced by summer-born children and puts forward ...

Children as young as five could be identified as at risk of being not in education, employment or training (Neet) when older so that support can be targeted at them early, a think-tank has said.

Paediatricians are calling on the incoming Prime Minister to make children’s health a national priority, warning that the UK ...