25th May, 2022 10:10 am
Child advocacy campaigners want teachers to get compulsory abuse recognition training and to sharpen the Children’s Act so that it is “feared” like health and safety laws. Stuff approached a number of leading child advocates, political figures and people involved in the education sector after revealing that teachers and daycare staff have no legal obligation to pass on their fears to agencies. That... View Article
25th May, 2022 8:34 am
The attack is the deadliest shooting at a US school since the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, almost a decade ago. Nineteen children and two teachers have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a primary school in Texas. The attack happened on Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, around 80 miles west of San Antonio.... View Article
23rd May, 2022 2:36 pm
ENGLAND (TND) — A woman in the United Kingdom has been found guilty of murdering a 13-month-old boy who she was in the process of adopting, multiple British reports say. Laura Castle, 38, lost her temper and violently shook Leiland-James Corkill to death due to the infant’s crying in Jan. 2021, according to the BBC. Scott Castle, Laura’s husband, has reportedly been... View Article
23rd May, 2022 2:33 pm
A 12-year-old boy was driven almost 200 miles and housed with a sex offender by a social worker at an under-fire council, the BBC has learned. The child was taken from his home in Herefordshire to stay with a relative in Bradford whose partner had admitted touching a young girl in 1991. The boy, now an adult, said he had... View Article
23rd May, 2022 12:37 pm
Blackpool’s Jake Daniels said his decision to come out as the UK’s only openly gay active male professional footballer would allow him to be “free and confident”. The Championship club forward is the first professional in the UK men’s game for more than 30 years to come out while still playing. Speaking to Sky Sports, the 17-year-old said: “Now is... View Article
23rd May, 2022 12:13 pm
Schools should use their “professional curiosity” when recruiting new teachers and staff members and use search engines as “another tool” to find out whether candidates are suitable, the Government has said. In a response to a consultation on safeguarding in schools, the Government said this would boost procedures in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard. It said that “on the back... View Article
23rd May, 2022 8:49 am
Root-and-branch review calls for five-year, £2.6bn programme to reform a system that is under ‘extreme stress’ An urgent multibillion-pound overhaul of children’s social care in England is needed to transform the life chances of thousands of vulnerable young people and reform a system that is spiralling out of control, a government-commissioned review has concluded. The author of the report, Josh... View Article
23rd May, 2022 7:58 am
Experts say many others are denied help, and ‘relentless’ rise in demand could overwhelm NHS More than 400,000 children and young people a month are being treated for mental health problems – the highest number on record – prompting warnings of an unprecedented crisis in the wellbeing of under-18s. Experts say Covid-19 has seriously exacerbated problems such as anxiety, depression... View Article
23rd May, 2022 7:55 am
New Beginnings gives social workers the time to develop relationships with the families they help Almost a year ago, Clare Western wrote a letter to her two teenage children. She opened up about her regrets and how she should have listened when they urged her to leave an abusive ex-partner. It was a “monumental moment”, she said. “They both broke... View Article
23rd May, 2022 7:50 am
Children in care should receive protection under the Equality Act in the same way as race and sexuality to tackle the stigma and discrimination they face in life, a landmark review recommends. The once-in-a-generation children’s social care review, published today, calls on the UK to be the first in the world to make care experience a protected characteristic, and to... View Article
