Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
Home

Search

  • Donate
  • News & opinion
  • About us
    • Who we are
      • Our 60th anniversary
        • 60 years old but forever young
        • Explore our story!
        • National Children’s Bureau: 60 Years Driving Change for Children
        • 60th takeover! A creative take on our birthday branding
        • Animating our anniversary
      • Our impact
      • Our vision, mission and values
      • Our NCB family
        • Anti-Bullying Alliance
          • Anti-Bullying Alliance membership
        • Childhood Bereavement Network
          • Childhood Bereavement Network membership
          • Childhood Bereavement Network resources
        • Council for Disabled Children
          • Council for Disabled Children
          • Information, Advice and Support Services Network
          • Making Ourselves Heard
          • Special Educational Consortium
          • Transition Information Network
        • Lambeth Early Action Partnership
        • Northern Ireland Anti-Bullying Forum
        • Schools' Wellbeing Partnership
      • Our expertise
        • Leadership Team
        • Trustees
        • Deputy Directors
        • Sector specialists
      • Our process
      • Our accreditation
      • Our annual reports
    • Where we work
      • NCB in Northern Ireland
        • News & opinion
        • NI projects & programmes
          • PEACE IV Shared Education - Impact evaluation Executive Summary
          • Anti-bullying policy and practice
          • LINKS Network
            • LINKS Grant Holder Organisations
              • A - F
              • G - L
              • M - R
              • S - Z
            • LINKS workshops
            • LINKS Young People Advisory Group
            • LINKS Internship
            • The Impact of Covid 19 on LINKS Groups
            • LINKS News
            • LINKS Cluster Group Meetings
          • Early years work in NI
        • Outcomes Based Accountability
        • Resources & Publications
        • Contact the Northern Ireland team
        • Our team
    • Join the team
      • Current vacancies
      • Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
        • Multi-Ethnic Staff Support Network
        • NCB Board Statement on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
        • NCB Staff Disability and Neurodiversity Network
      • Employee benefits
      • Working at NCB
    • Media centre
      • News & opinion
      • Spokespeople

    About us

    We bring people and organisations together to drive change in society and deliver a better childhood across the UK.

    More
    • Who we are
    • Where we work
    • Join the team
    • Media centre
    Featured

    Our NCB family

  • What we do
    • Research & evidence
      • Our research projects
        • Children and Society Journal
        • Health research
        • LINKS Network
        • Outcomes Research
        • Social Care Research
        • Youth justice research
        • Early years research
        • Education research
      • Young Research Advisors
      • Ethical guidelines
      • Research partners
      • Families Research Advisory Group
    • Influencing policy
      • All Party Parliamentary Group
      • General election: manifesto influencing
        • Children at the Table
          • Children at the Table: Policy report
      • Policy campaigns
        • 'It’s Our Care' Day of Action
        • CAMHS Referrals and Outcomes for Adolescents and Children with Social Workers study
        • Children and Young People's Health Policy Influencing Group (HPIG)
          • HPIG and the Health and Care Act
          • HPIG members
          • ICS Working Group
        • Children’s Social Care Review
        • Give us a Chancellor
        • Build Back Childhood
        • A vision for recovery
        • Children at the Heart
      • Reports, briefings and consultation responses
      • Our manifesto
    • Practice and programmes
      • Early years
        • Early Childhood Unit
          • Lunchtime Learning Webinars
          • Our programmes
            • Making it REAL
            • Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs
              • Stronger Practice Hubs: Embedding an evidence-based approach
                • EYSPH professional development programmes
            • Special Making it REAL
            • Healthy Early Years and Healthy Schools London
            • Our work in NI
            • Our work in Lambeth
            • Our work in Lewisham
          • Our training
          • National Quality Improvement Network
          • Our resources
            • Early years leaflets
            • Knowledge Makes Change seminars
          • Early Childhood Unit newsletter
        • A Better Start
        • Early Years SEND Partnership
        • Lambeth Early Action Partnership
      • Health and mental health
        • Child health
          • Participation and co-production
          • Service design
          • Understanding your healthcare rights
        • Integration
          • Alternative provision
          • An outcomes-based approach to data
          • Health and justice
          • Joint commissioning
        • Mental health and wellbeing
          • Schools' Wellbeing Partnership
            • Whole school approach
            • Key resources
            • Recent partnership activity
            • Partnership members
            • Our forum
            • Apply to join the partnership
          • Adolescence, Mental Health and Developing Mind
          • Mental health workforce training
          • Personalised care
          • Wellbeing Award for Schools
          • HeadStart
            • Schools
            • Community approaches
            • Cross systems working
            • Outputs
            • Participation and co-production
            • Workforce development
            • Digital
            • Vulnerable young people
            • Learning from events
            • Reflections from NCB Support and Development contract
        • SEND excellence and improvement
          • Learning disability and autism
          • Research & improvement in SEND excellence
          • Supporting health leaders
          • Supporting parents
      • Social care
        • Sector Awareness and Provider Preparedness
          • About the programme
          • Get involved
            • Digital Learning Platform
            • Join our Online Community of Practice Forums
            • Training and events
            • Sector Intelligence
            • Contact us
          • Involving Young People
          • News
            • Latest news
            • Newsletter
          • Regulations and standards
            • Categories of supported accommodation
          • Resource hub
            • Case Study Learning Example: Sunderland – a local authority registering as a supported accommodation provider
            • Events
            • FAQs
            • Key Learning for Supported Lodging Providers
            • Key Tips for Registering a Supported Accommodation Service
            • Policy Development Resources
            • Provider Information Pack 
            • Registration Process Map
            • Roles and Responsibilities Resources
            • Supported Accommodation - Provider Readiness Tool
            • Timeline to Register
            • Unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people: Young person's information pack
              • Helplines for young people
              • Online resources
              • Other resources for young people
            • eLearning courses 
        • Family Help listing
          • Supporting and strengthening families through early help - A rapid review of evidence
        • Inclusion & SEND
          • Delivering Better Outcomes Together
          • Information, Advice and Support Programme
          • It’s My Life! Decisions, Capacity and Education, Health and Care Plans
        • Safeguarding children
          • National Government action
          • Supporting local systems to protect children
          • Ensuring the voices of those with lived experience are heard
          • Understanding the impact of maltreatment
          • Domestic violence and abuse in local child safeguarding policy
          • Safeguarding Early Adopters
          • Understanding, preventing and responding to sexual and sexist bullying
          • Our people
    • Involving children & young people
      • Young NCB Advisory Group
      • Recent projects with children & young people
      • Involving children & young people in research
      • Listen to Our Turn to Talk podcast
      • Join Young NCB
    • Our strategy

    What we do

    Our impact goes beyond childhood to deliver lasting change for future generations.

    More
    • Research & evidence
    • Influencing policy
    • Practice and programmes
    • Involving children & young people
    • Our strategy
    Featured

    Give us a Chancellor

    Featured

    Reports, briefings and consultation responses

  • Resources
    • All resources
    • Major reports and resources
    • Training, consultancy and events
      • SEND e-learning
      • Early years training and consultancy
    • Covid-19 resources
    • Resources for schools

    Resources

    Information and tools to guide policy and practice development.

    More
    • All resources
    • Major reports and resources
    • Training, consultancy and events
    • Covid-19 resources
    • Resources for schools
    Featured

    Covid-19 resources

    Featured

    Resources for schools

  • Partner with us
    • Trusts and foundations
    • Corporate partnerships
    • Consultancy
    • Individual supporters
    • Leave a gift in your will

    Partner with us

    Help to build a better childhood for every child by getting involved today

    More
    • Trusts and foundations
    • Corporate partnerships
    • Consultancy
    • Individual supporters
    • Leave a gift in your will
    Featured

    Trusts and foundations

    Featured

    Individual supporters

News & opinion

Our latest news, and opinions from across the sector.

  • Policy — 10 Aug 2021

    Sometimes decision makers do care: be courageous

    Rose, aged 21, describes how presenting her concerns to a meeting of Government officials, renewed her faith in the people in charge as being eager to listen.

    More
  • Policy — 19 Jul 2021

    Insights into the impact of COVID-19 on children and young people with SEND in Northern Ireland

    Our final report details the highs and lows of life during the pandemic for children and young people with disabilities, their families, and the practitioners who work with them.

    More
  • News & opinion — 15 Jul 2021

    Welsh Government funds support to help schools tackle bullying

    The Anti-Bullying Alliance and Kidscape have announced new support from the Welsh Government, enabling them to deliver anti-bullying support for schools throughout Wales during the coming year.

    More
  • News & opinion — 14 Jul 2021

    Councils forced to halve spending on early help services for vulnerable children

    As part of the Children’s Services Funding Alliance, NCB has helped to generate new evidence highlighting the demise of the children's social care system and the action required to put it right.

    More
  • Policy — 28 Jun 2021

    Children's sector's letter to Telegraph says children must be at the heart of recovery plans

    100+ organisations say that despite the Prime Minister’s pledges, the needs of babies, children, and young people have all too often been overlooked in pandemic policymaking.

    More
  • Social care & looked after children — 17 Jun 2021

    Children’s social care review makes for ‘depressing reading’

    Too many previous reviews, reports and researchers have made the same points. We know what’s wrong with the system, what we need is the political will and urgency to change it.

    More
  • News & opinion — 14 Jun 2021

    Alison Penny awarded MBE

    Director of the Childhood Bereavement Network and Coordinator of the National Bereavement Alliance recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours List.

    More
  • Policy — 8 Jun 2021

    Unprecedented coalition urges Govt rethink of recovery plans for children

    A cross-sector group of educationalists, charities, business leaders, unions and young people have urged the Government to reconsider its pandemic recovery measures for children and young people, asking them to urgently boost investment.

    More
  • Mental health & wellbeing — 7 Jun 2021

    Stronger from the Start

    Promoting and Improving Infant Mental Health in Northern Ireland.

    More
  • News & opinion — 2 Jun 2021

    No comprehensive plan from the government – another sticking plaster for COVID recovery

    More
  • Research — 29 May 2021

    New analysis of help for struggling children and families underlines challenge facing Govt’s social care rethink

    The National Children’s Bureau and University of Cambridge have raised concerns that support for vulnerable children is being driven by what is easiest to measure, rather than deliver the community-based and family-orientated services envisioned in the Children Act.

    More
  • News & opinion — 26 May 2021

    Sector calls on NI Minister to focus on infant mental health

    A broad coalition of community and voluntary sector organisations in Northern Ireland has written to the NI Minister of Health demanding action to include infant mental health in the 10-year Mental Health Strategy due for publication in summer 2021. The National Children’s Bureau is proud of its continuing collaboration on this issue: we know this will help make children and families #strongerfromthestart.

    More

Pagination

  • First page First
  • Previous page Previous
  • …
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Page 8
  • Current page 9
  • Page 10
  • Page 11
  • Page 12
  • Page 13
  • …
  • Next page Next
  • Last page Last

About us

  • Who we are
  • Where we work
  • Join the team
  • Media centre
    • News & opinion
    • Spokespeople
Back to top
Home

Sign up to our newsletter

  • About us
    • Who we are
    • Where we work
    • Join the team
    • Media centre
  • What we do
    • Research & evidence
    • Influencing policy
    • Practice and programmes
    • Involving children & young people
    • Our strategy
  • Resources
    • All resources
    • Major reports and resources
    • Training, consultancy and events
    • Covid-19 resources
    • Resources for schools
  • Partner with us
    • Trusts and foundations
    • Corporate partnerships
    • Consultancy
    • Individual supporters
    • Leave a gift in your will

Meet the NCB family : United for better childhood

  • NCB Home

  • CDC Home

  • CBN Home

  • ABA Home

  • SWP Home

© National Children's Bureau 2023

  • linkedin
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • youtube
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy statement
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookie Policy
  • Suppliers area
  • Contact us

Registered charity No. 258825. Registered in England and Wales No. 952717.

Registered office: National Children’s Bureau, 23 Mentmore Terrace, Hackney, London E8 3PN. A Company Limited by Guarantee.

Site by Effusion