The Home Office's planned knife crime prevention orders (KCPOs) can be imposed on any person aged 12 or over if police believe they are carrying a knife and also on those who have a previous conviction...
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The Bleak Houses report by children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield said that there are 124,000 children who are officially homeless and a further 90,000 forced to "sofa surf".
Official figures...
Ofsted judged Warrington children's services as "good" in each of the areas that were focused on in the inspection: the impact of leaders on social work practice with children and families, the experiences...
The analysis by education charity Teach First found that 38 per cent of pupils from England's most disadvantaged areas do not pass their maths GCSE, compared with 20 per cent of those from the richest...
Between 2014/15 and 2018/19, a total of 2,371 students enrolled in the Frontline programme for social work, a fast-track training scheme that awards graduate diplomas after a year of study and a Master's...
The "significant areas of weakness" detailed in a new inspection report has resulted in Ofsted ordering Peterborough Council and the Cambridge and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group to submit a...
The projects - which include community-based counselling services, mentoring and arts programmes - aim to offer children and young people up to 25 the opportunity to access mental health support.
They...
Speaking at an event in Corby, he said a future Labour government would make it compulsory for local authorities to deliver youth services.
The Labour leader said cuts to public sector spending that...
However, social workers in the three Devolved Budget pilot areas - Darlington, Hillingdon and Wigan - identified a number of concerns, including lack of confidence and training in how to spend money. ...
In order to embed their learning and to continue developing their skills after the Practice Supervisor Development Programme, supervisors need support and encouragement from their organisations.