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Children missing in education

The Department for Education has published an updated version of Children missing in education: Statutory guidance for local authorities. Thi...
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Keeping children safe in education update

The Department for Education has published an updated version of the statutory guidance, Keeping children safe in education. This revises and...
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Analysis of SCRs highlights need for learning and improvement

This analysis of serious case reviews from 2011 to 2014 by the Department for Education has recommended moving away from analysing whether serious ha...
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Ofsted head warns of danger of radicalisation

Sir Michael Wilshaw, Ofsted Chief Inspector, has warned that thousands of children in unregistered schools are at risk of being radicalised. Sir Micha...
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Changes to Keeping children safe in education

Department for Education has published an updated version of the statutory guidance, Keeping children safe in education. This revises and rep...
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Looked-after children turned away by mental health services

An Education Committee report on the mental health and well-being of looked-after children has highlighted the failure of local authorities and health...
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Call to reduce stigma of youth homelessness

A charity has called on policy-makers and commissioners to reduce the stigma around youth homelessness so that young people are more willing to seek h...
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Four in 10 adults discriminated against as children

A Save the Children survey has revealed that almost 40% of adults say their childhoods were blighted by discrimination because of where they were born...
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Government plans to address challenges in the adoption system

Adoption: a vision for change by the Department for Education sets out the government’s plans for the adoption system over the next four ye...