A significant new collaborative research project has launched to shed light on the effectiveness of the mental health and wellbeing support and treatment received by children and young people who have involvement with social workers.
There is a clear consensus that system change is not only needed but also possible. The question is how do you make it happen? - NCB's Chair Alison O’Sullivan shares her thoughts on the future of Family Help and how the sector can create a successful working model.
Will Liz Truss have the courage to do what is needed to protect our most vulnerable children and their families? NCB's CEO, Anna Feuchtwang shares her concerns.
Leading children's charities have written to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak demanding that vulnerable children are 'at the heart' of the next Prime Minister's priorities.
DfE will be consulting the children’s sector on changing staff to child ratios for two-year-olds. What evidence do we have that this proposal will lead to better outcomes for our youngest children?
Star Hobson and Arthur Lanbinjo-Hughes were murdered by members of their close family who have been rightly held accountable for these terrible crimes. But their cases also highlight, yet again, what can happen if public services do not work together effectively and information about vulnerable children is not shared in a timely way.
The Review has not shied away from the challenge, addressing knotty issues like multi-agency working, the huge and unnecessary barriers to sharing information about children, and the broken care market. But now we need urgent action from Government to embrace these plans.
The National Children’s Bureau, NSPCC, Action for Children, Barnardo’s and The Children’s Society, urge Govt to seize once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix children’s social care.
