Youth workers are being urged to give their views on proposals to overhaul qualifications and training for the role in a bid ...

Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) applications rose by almost 25% according to the latest Ministry of Justice (MoJ) quarterly data ...

A national wellbeing measurement is being considered as part of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, education ...

The Department for Education (DfE) has become the first government department to provide paid leave to staff who are kinship carers.

CiN plans are a key mechanism for triggering support for struggling families (see box), and every year around 400,000 ...

The government is currently consulting on a 10-year health plan for England. Central planks include moving care from ...

For teenagers and older children, these worries can be made worse by the return to school or college. Academic expectations, ...

My heart sank when I heard yet another call, this time from Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden, for “disruptors, innovators ...

Mark Twain said there is no such thing as a new idea. The government proved that last month by putting forward proposals to ...

Childcare social enterprise London Foundation (LEYF) is to take over the running of Hillingdon Council’s three early years ...

What some outlets have termed “youth worklessness” has reached a 10-year high, with 1.2 million young people in the UK said ...

Ofsted chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver has questioned government plans for “safeguarding spot checks” on schools, instead ...