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The 2024 UK Parliamentary general election was held on Thursday 4 July. This was the first time that all voters across the UK were required to show an ...

Partnership For Young London, alongside Youth Focus Northwest and Youth Focus NorthEast has been funded by NHS Charities Together to deliver a peer re ...

The government has launched an anti-knife crime coalition designed to reduce the risk of young people becoming involved in violence. ...

Tuition fees in England would need to rise to £12,500 to meet universities' teaching costs, the vice-chancellor of King's College London has said. Pro ...

What can our region learn? Schoolchildren living in London's ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) were nearly four times as likely to switch to walking and ...

Social business Catch22 has confirmed a merger with youth violence prevention charity Redthread. The organisations said they were exploring a merger i ...

In the wake of recent racist and Islamophobic riots in the United Kingdom, the United Nations’ anti-racism body has issued a report on the UK’s record ...

Campaigners say impressionable youngsters are repeating in the classroom what they hear from their parents and right-wing figures in the media.  They ...

A survey of more than 10,000 teachers in England, carried out by TeacherTapp on behalf of Fareshare, found that 28% of those asked had brought in food ...

The British Medical Association says bold action is needed and vapes have no rightful place in young people’s lives. Children are being targeted with ...

In the year to 31 March, 103 new council-run children’s homes opened in England. There was a 31% increase on the number of council-run homes a year ea ...

More than 500 children a day in England are being referred to NHS mental health services for anxiety, more than double the rate of before the pandemic ...

Hi, you’ve reached the voicemail of Yasmin Rufo. Please don't leave a message as I won’t listen to it or call you back. Unfortunately that isn't my an ...

ECC shares a blog post written by my youth Ambassador Ben. Ben has just completed his penultimate year of school and this summer re-sat his GCSE Engli ...

Younger people say they cannot progress their chosen careers as they are unable to afford homes in cities where there are more opportunities. Home own ...

The percentage of top A-level grades has risen for the first time since 2021 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Overall this year 27.8% of al ...

One in five children in care in England are being placed more than 20 miles from their family, friends, school and wider community, research by childr ...

Home secretary cites knives and pressures of social media as she announces plans for ‘young futures’ unit to prevent crime. ...

International Youth Day 2024, hosted by the United Nations, is celebrating youth digital pathways for sustainable development. ...

Doom spending is basically spending money on short-term, instant enjoyment, rather than saving it for the future, to cope with economic stress and wor ...

Six youth sports, arts and outdoor activity schemes have received £11m to test their effectiveness in preventing young people from becoming involved i ...

Increasing the number of young people in care involved in Staying Put foster care schemes could prevent hundreds of care leavers a year becoming homel ...

Resources and Space to Connect Following the devastating incident in Southport last week and escalating concerns about disinformation, discrimination ...

Friday the Prime Minister held a press conference to address the violent disorder that has followed the tragic events in Southport this week, giving h ...

The number of young people aged 25 and under sleeping rough on London's streets has increased by more than a third, according to Centrepoint a charity ...

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson was announced as Education Secretary on 5 July, the day after the Labour Party’s landslide win at the general e ...

A youth charity formed over 20 years ago is exploring a proposed merger with welfare charity Catch22 after facing funding challenges.  Redthread, whic ...

The government has announced that it will pull together the skills landscape through the launch of Skills England. As part of the government’s plans t ...

The Local Government Association has announced that it has launched new proposals to localise employment and skills services.  Analysis from the LGA h ...

Research in Practice has published a blog post on the NSPCC’s Together for Childhood (TfC) place-based programme, in which local residents and agencie ...

The NSPCC has published a news story on children in the UK living in poverty, looking at the findings of a poll undertaken by 2,000 adults. A YouGov s ...

Ucas is changing personal statements, long the bane of teenagers' final year at school, for university admissions.   Instead of a 4,000-character stat ...

Legislation designed to improve children’s wellbeing is among government plans laid out by Charles III in his first King’s Speech under a Labour gover ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a new cross-government child poverty unit. The new child poverty unit, based in the Cabinet Office, will ...

The survey, commissioned by food redistribution charity The Felix Project and carried out by Teacher Tapp, found that some 68 per cent of teachers are ...

Children’s rights will now be at the heart of decision making in Scotland as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (Incorpo ...

Isolation booths, frequent suspensions and strict behaviour regimes look set to be phased out in England as the Labour government shifts focus on how ...

Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed a Cabinet of Labour Party lawmakers and a few outside experts as he tries to tackle priorities ...

NCS (National Citizen Service) Trust Chief Executive Officer Mark Gifford has announced he will leave the Trust following four successful and transfor ...

Oasis St Martin’s Village will offer mentoring and other help for at-risk young people and is intended to be first of many. ...

The government has announced that it is bringing financial institutions together under the new National Wealth Fund. ...

A recent report found that almost two million UK graduates owe £50,000 or more in student loans. Emma Loffhagen speaks to young people struggling to p ...

A group of teenagers came to City Hall to say that knife crime is the “leading issue for young people” in Bristol. Members of the Bristol City Youth C ...

In May, the Office of National Statistics released its latest NEET figures. They showed that numbers of young people not in education, employment or t ...

For a number of the England's Children's Commissioner Youth Ambassadors this has been the first time they have had the opportunity to vote in their fi ...

New Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has committed to a cross-government focus on tackling child poverty. Phillipson told local authority leader ...

GM Business Board member Andy Burnham brought together over 200 employers and educators to unveil proposals for the core subjects of the Greater Manch ...

Working with local business to open up 20,000 work experience placements, training opportunities and apprenticeships training is just one of the key p ...

Dr Alok Gupta, clinical lead at the Darent Valley clinic, said the issue "won't go away" and was impacting "the emotional health and the quality of li ...

Readers respond to an editorial about the loss of council-run youth services as Tory cuts have bitten into budgets ...

A 22-year-old elected as an MP with a razor-thin majority has said he does not want his age to be the focus as he heads to Westminster. Fresh faces: m ...

One in seven young Black and Asian Britons are making concrete plans to leave the UK due to government failings, racism and economic worries, a new st ...

Youth groups are clamouring for more volunteers amid a rise in the number of parents seeking affordable and sociable outdoor activities for their chil ...

Northumberland County Council is launching a new Supported Internship programme for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND ...

Locked in their bedrooms, playing video games into the small hours, children as young as 10 years old are now addicted to their consoles. Tim Lewis he ...

New Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has highlighted children’s social care and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) as key issues ...

Barnardo’s and the Centre to End all Sexual Exploitation (Cease) have written an open letter to the next government on the harms of online pornography ...

Sir Keir Starmer is UK's first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party's landslide general election win. Labour is returning to power with a ...

The former owner of Watford Football Club and charity founder, Sir Jack Petchey, has died aged 98. Sir Jack died on Thursday at his home in east Londo ...

Labour have promised to cut knife crime and ban the online sale and possession of dangerous knives, if they win the election. Sir Keir Starmer said Tu ...

SCHOOL pupils in Tameside are learning how to call out sexist behaviour as part of a new pilot programme to tackle violence against women and girls. T ...

University student pretended to carry out a ‘dirty protest’ in a lake at Prime Minister’s North Yorkshire constituency home ...

National Youth Agency’s Leigh Middleton awarded an OBE for Services to Young People ...

Pressed by BBC Question Time presenter Fiona Bruce, Mr Sunak suggested the government will consider stopping young people having access to finance or ...

All political parties are underestimating the financial crisis in local government with half of councils bracing themselves for bankruptcy within five ...

BBC London can reveal 3,045 accompanied asylum-seeking children are currently living in hotels in the capital, according to Home Office data revealed ...

The Children’s Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza has called on every party leader to hold a debate for children during the election campai ...

The Liberal Democrats have pledged a series of policies to narrow the attainment gap for disadvantaged children and boost educational opportunities fo ...

Creating more residential care places, restricting children’s access to social media and boosting post-16 vocational training opportunities are some o ...

Reducing child poverty, investing in school-based careers and mental health support for young people and giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote ...

The Children’s Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza has called on every party leader to hold a debate for children during the election campai ...

The Voluntary Sector Manifesto, which sets out a vision for a better future for all. ...

Offenders who create sexually explicit ‘deepfakes’ will face prosecution under a new law announced by the government. Under the new offence, those who ...

We have reviewed what different youth organisations are calling for and brought it all together for you in this blog, we are very grateful to the Back ...

What the general election means for The National Lottery Community Fund Immediately before every election, there is a Period of Sensitivity. This plac ...

The National Citizen Service (NCS) has cut costs by 32% over the last 12 months in a bid to “deliver value for money for the taxpayer”, according to i ...

Alex Ambrosio was a refugee from Angola when he arrived alone in the UK aged 13 and unable to speak English. He moved in with foster carers in Hilling ...

One in 13 young front seat vehicle passengers in England does not wear a seat belt, new figures suggest.  Department for Transport (DfT) research cond ...

The Lib Dems have pledged to fund mental health professionals in every primary and secondary school across the if they win the election on 4 July. The ...

Rishi Sunak has said young people who serve with the military as part of his national service scheme will receive a "stipend" to help with living expe ...

he National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF), the largest community funder in the UK, has published its new Corporate Plan covering the next three years ...

Charities supporting children and young people have released manifestos detailing what they want from the next government in the run up to the general ...

A study of 10,000 teachers by School Food Matters and Teacher Tapp has highlighted that schools are using their own budgets to stop children from goin ...

The UK Covid Inquiry has opened its investigation into the impact of the pandemic on children and young people.  Areas it will focus on include how ch ...

NCS Trust has partnered with StreetGames,  the Social Prescribing Youth Network (SPYN) and researchers at University College London (UCL) to build evi ...

More than 330,000 young people started their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) in 2023/24, the charity’s annual statistics reveal – with participants g ...

GCSE exams are starting in England and Wales, with students in England given some extra help in maths and science in recognition of the disruption the ...

Government maintenance support provided to university students ‘falls short’ of what is needed to cover living costs, a report says.  A Minimum Income ...

The government must come up with a “coherent plan for children” across all departments with responsibility for services affecting young people, the pr ...

Sexism is on the rise in schools because of harmful content on children's phones, according to the National Education Union's (NEU) general secretary. ...

A 17-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulty while swimming during the hot weather. ...

Ofcom has warned social media sites they could be named and shamed - and banned for under-18s - if they fail to comply with new online safety rules.   ...

The number of ‘ghost children' in UK schools has shot up since the pandemic, with thousands missing out on school.  One pupil for every secondary scho ...

Shortages and funding cuts are causing a “full-blown crisis” in special needs education for children and young people in England, according to school ...

Catherine Carr travelled the UK interviewing teenage boys.  Finding openness, thoughtfulness, honesty and vulnerability on topics from sex to pornogra ...

Catherine Carr travelled the UK interviewing teenage boys.  Finding openness, thoughtfulness, honesty and vulnerability on topics from sex to pornogra ...

An 18-year-old who has won a council seat for Labour in the local elections said she was "overwhelmed" by her victory.  Daisy Creedon-Blakemore, who i ...

Award-winning rapper Stormzy is “gassed” to be opening a community centre in London that is geared towards helping young people.  #MerkyFC HQ, a joint ...

Forget about collapsing lungs and heart failure, vaping could be stunting the growth of teens’ brains due to toxic metals like lead and uranium.  Chil ...

Girlguiding has launched a new environmental strategy designed to reduce environment-based anxieties facing children. Read more here ...

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry will hear from hundreds of young people about the lasting effects of the Covid-19 pandemic to form legal evidence for future ...

Rishi Sunak wants to strip GPs of their power to sign people off work as part of a plan to tackle what he calls the UK's "sick note culture". The pri ...

BBC Children in Need and McDonald’s UK have launched Makin’ It – a nationwide initiative to better support young people and unlock genuine opportunit ...

A third of 11-year-olds and more than half of 13-year-olds in England have drunk alcohol - putting it top out of 44 countries examined in a report by ...

A programme that will see £3.6 million handed to care leavers initiatives across England has been launched. The money is being distributed by 17 comm ...

English local authorities are facing an annual shortfall of £332 million in youth homelessness funding, economists have warned. Rising costs to meet ...

An initiative is launching that aims to gather the views of a cross-sector group of 10,000 professionals to find ways to improve support for young pe ...

Cross-party MPs are encouraging people to share their experiences of children’s social care as part of their investigation into how the government co ...

Children from low-income families who grew up near a Sure Start centre did better than their peers at GCSEs, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies (I ...

The results of a Freedom of Information request sent to all councils in England by sight loss charity the Royal National Institute of Blind People (R ...

But the government is ‘absolutely’ committed to BYC’s UK Youth Parliament programme, the charities minister says.  The DCMS was informed of the BYC’s ...

Established by the Children’s Coaching Collaborative – a collection of organisations including Sport England, Mind, Unicef and StreetGames – Play The ...

Charities in England and Wales saw their income collectively rise by 8.5% to £90.3bn in 2022, despite a significant drop in government grants, accord ...

AO founder and chief executive John Roberts has called on the government to fix the UK’s “broken” youth services by spending £1bn a year on youth pro ...

Kent County Council (KCC) ended funding for commissioned youth services – where outside organisations provide activities – from April, in a move to s ...

The leader of the UK’s largest education union has called for an independent inquiry into the rise of sexism and misogyny among boys and young men, s ...

Young people can barely get through an interview – let alone become valuable employees, according to an article in the Telegraph.  Also see A third o ...

Young people struggling to attend school and to develop relationships with their peers are being helped back into education and are learning to open ...

A new coalition of youth work organisations, researchers and local authorities has been set up to better evaluate the impact of the sector on young p ...

Young people are learning about sex from online pornography because conventional sex education is "failing" them, MPs have said, amid a surge of sexu ...

In April 2024, the ownership of the Supporting Families programme will move from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) to t ...

British Girlguiding Overseas (BGO)  closed on 1 September 2023, along with units in the Middle East and Africa, Asia, Benelux and France and Europe. ...

One in four children starting school in England and Wales are not toilet-trained, according to teachers who now spend a third of their day supporting ...

As part of a pilot from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education’s, NE Youth and Youth Focus: North East - the fo ...

The National Youth Agency’s six-point manifesto calls on national government to ensure all young people have access to the youth provision they need, ...

A poll, commissioned by a coalition of youth and education organisations, found that more than half (57%) of young people aged between eight and 17 f ...

About 300,000 more children were plunged into absolute poverty in a single year at the height of the cost-of-living crisis amid soaring levels of hun ...

The British Youth Council is sad to announce its permanent closure after more than 75 years of championing the voices of young people.  Speaking on b ...

Councils call for ‘honest discussion’ on what they should be expected to deliver as new data reveals local authorities spend two-thirds of their budg ...

As councils grapple with financial strains and increasing demands from communities, join us as Cllr Pete Marland, Chair of the LGA’s Economy and Reso ...

Social prescribing is suited to all age groups, but it is especially important for children and youth, as it is well understood that this population ...