January 2016

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The Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation

Developed by the sector for the sector with the support of mental health charity Mind, The Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation aims to crea...
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Protecting disabled young people at risk of sexual exploitation

Research study, commissioned by Comic Relief, aims to increase understanding of how to meet the needs of children and young people with learning disab...
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New online self-audit from Keeping Children Safe

Keeping Children Safe has released (October 2015) an online self-audit to determine an organisation’s strengths and weaknesses in keeping children s...
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New guidelines to improve care for people at the end of life

Guidelines for the NHS on improving care for people who are in their last days of life have been launched by NICE....
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Children who return home from care: improving practice

Research on how local authorities support children who return home from care and their families looks into the work local authorities do to support ch...
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Government consultation on keeping children safe in education open

Consultation opened on 22 December 2015. Responses to be submitted by 16 February 2016. Proposed changes to the statutory guidance Keeping Children Sa...
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NSPCC’s Child Trafficking Advice Centre (CTAC) has published a new report on child trafficking

NSPCC's Child Trafficking Advice Centre (CTAC)'s report Free to Move, Invisible to Care highlights issues faced by Romanian children in the ...
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Prime Minister announces that poorly performing children’s services must improve or be taken over by high-performing authorities, experts and charities

Britain's Prime Minister has announced radical reforms which will mean poorly performing children’s services must improve – or they will be taken...
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Joint targeted reviews of services to protect children – Government consultation response

Government's response to a consultation on a new system of joint multi-agency reviews, to assess more effectively how local agencies are working in a ...