Ellie Johnson of CoramBAAF sets out the key features of new standards for health assessments of children when they enter care ...

Amid a rise in youth homelessness, Coram is particularly concerned about increasing levels of young care leavers facing or at risk of being homeless. Here, two of the charity's experts set out the key ...

Reforms to local authority inspections of children’s services (ILACS) will include the removal of the single-word overall effectiveness rating from April 2026, the inspectorate Ofsted has confirmed.

Early years campaigners are making urgent calls for professional reform after a latest research found a risk of services being undermined by a poor quality workforce.

Lancashire County Council’s Virtual School Employment Support Team was the big winner at the 2025 Children & Young People Now ...

Nearly three quarters of 13–17-year-olds in a poll reported seeing real-world violence on social media in the past year – ...

Children’s sector leaders have welcomed the government's decision to end the two-child benefit cap, announced by Chancellor ...

The controversial two-child benefit cap is to be scrapped from April 2026, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has ...

London’s universal free school meals programme is generating more than £11.5 million in extra funding for settings every year ...

Researchers have highlighted significant pressure on councils from rising severity and complexity of need among under fives.

The new Initial Health Assessment (IHA) Delivery Standards recently published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child ...