The Law Commission consultation paper on disabled children’s social care legislation creates a welcome opportunity to address some of the longstanding barriers to disabled children and their families ...

Better access to youth services is needed to help young people cut their reliance on phones, a study has found.

Better access to youth services is needed to help young people cut their reliance on phones, a study has found. It shows that a quarter of 11–18-year-olds spend most of their free time on their ...

The Law Commission consultation paper on disabled children’s social care legislation creates a welcome opportunity to address some of the longstanding barriers to disabled children and their families ...

Care leavers should not have to pay council tax or for health costs such as prescriptions, dental treatment and eye tests, according to the Local Government Association (LGA).

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

Following National Care Leavers Week, I have been reflecting on the role of local authorities as corporate parents in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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