Susannah Hancock is to undertake an independent review into the placement of girls in the children and young people’s secure ...

Care leavers should not have to pay council tax or health costs such as for prescriptions, dental treatment and eye tests, ...

The Children’s Commissioner for England is calling on ministers to introduce national guidelines on how local authorities ...

A programme is being launched in Wigan to offer specialist support to 250 pupils impacted by mental health problems, ...

Hackney Council will no longer fight a legal challenge over its consultation on plans to close two children’s centres in the ...

The Law Commission consultation paper on disabled children’s social care legislation creates a welcome opportunity to address ...

With funding levels for children’s services unable to keep pace with rising demand or meet children’s needs, CYP Now convened ...

An increase in serious youth violence has led to warnings that more needs to be done to tackle the causes of violent crime ...

Tackling youth violence was on the agenda during the party conference season, with criminal justice experts and politicians ...

Headlines in the national media often depict the scale of serious youth violence as reaching epidemic proportions.

The Labour government is being urged to learn lessons from challenges to emerge from the education policies of Conservative ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has pledged to “look at” lowering the age at which a person can be classed as a victim of ...