Mental health checks for children entering the care system are to be trialled in the face of calls by peers for assessments, the Government has announced. Education minister Lord Nash
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The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children being looked after in England has jumped by more than half in the space of a year. A total of 4,210 children claiming asylum
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Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to listen to 1,000 young people as part of a project to improve the lives of children in care. The First Minister met with young people
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Only three in 100 children in care in England receive the independent support they may legally be entitled to. If it is in their interests, every child in the country
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Young people with a background in care have taken part in a summer school at Cardiff University, helping to give them a taste of life as a student. Twenty participants
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The Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Education asked Sir Martin Narey to review children’s residential care in England. Sir Martin’s report ‘ Residential care in England‘ looks at
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The Department for Education have published an evaluation of a programme for young people with challenging behaviours in the care system. ‘Better by Design: a report for Achieving for Children’
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Homelessness applications and the number assessed as homeless both reduced during 2015/16 according to a new publication by Scotland’s Chief Statistician. The Homelessness and Housing Options Statistics also show: A
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Fewer than one in 12 children in care leave school with one or more Highers, compared to three-fifths of all students in Scotland. In 2014-15, 60.2% of all school leavers
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The Children’s Commissioner for England visited Teesside University last week to talk about the important role education can play in shaping the future of care leavers’ lives. Anne Longfield OBE
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