Engage: The child’s right to participate. No, REALLY!
Local government is bound by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Check the responsibilities of your DCS and Lead Member for Children in their statutory guidance
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Category: Engage
Blog: Exeter counselling “cult” struck off by British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
In February 2014 I commented on a public statement by Palace Gate Counselling Service (also known as Phoenix Counselling Service), an Exeter-based organisation that took the bizarre step of making
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‘Cinderella law’ proposals are unhelpful and draconian
It seems there is an emerging cross-party consensus on the need to change the criminal law on child neglect in this country. The most recent manifestation of this new consensus
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Poorest face a council tax bill increase five times the average
Poorer families are facing year-on-year cuts in the safety net following changes to Council Tax Support, says Sabrina Bushe. New research by the New Policy Institute for JRF shows that
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Engage: Helping young people out of offending
Junior Smart, Founder of St Giles Trust’s SOS Project which supports young people to exit gangs and serious youth violence, explains how young people become trapped in gangs and what
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Blog: The working poor and the welfare cap
Flip Chart Fairy Tales is a blog written by Rick – HR manager, project manager and business consultant. The blog charts Ricks’ “reflections on business, the world of work and
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The pitfalls of measuring violence against women
It was simultaneously heartening and dispiriting to see the release of a survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on the prevalence of violence against women in
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Personal Budgets for adult social care and support: are homeless people eligible?
With the Care Bill entering the report stage in the House of Commons shortly, Michelle Cornes urges us to take part in the debate over what constitutes eligible need in
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New Scottish children’s service stirs up controversy
A new service for children contained in a bill currently going through the Scottish Parliament is causing some controversy north of the border. Whilst I wouldn’t normally pay too much
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Scrapping housing benefit for under 25’s will only feed youth homelessness
The coalition’s policies aimed at cutting the social security bill have so far fallen disproportionately on the youth demographic (and disabled people), despite older people receiving 47 per cent of
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