News

Rise.365, a community support group, said although there are almost 4,000 emojis, not a single one features a black or mixed-race hairstyle, so its me ...

On 17th October , at No.10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister confirmed his priority to reset the relationship with civil society. He outlined a commi ...

Fozia Irfan of BBC Children in Need says grantmakers need to be role models for what they want to see (you will need to sign in to see more) ...

Lib Peck, Director, London's Violence Reduction Unit, shares their approach ...

Cllr Arooj Shah, Chair of the Children and Young People Board, Local Government Association, shares their thoughts. ...

Youth Work has been in the news this week listen to Saturday live - 12th October 9.39 am - when Selina Brown - creator of the Black British Book Festi ...

The Government Equalities Office, Equality Hub and Department for Education (DfE) have published research evaluating the government’s anti-homophobic, ...

The government are introducing new workplace rights to end unfair employment practices. The employment Rights Bill will ban exploitative zero-hours co ...

A survey has found that more than half of teachers believe they will spend more time supporting pupils’ mental health during this school year. Just un ...

Once seen as a rite of passage, seasonal jobs in the rest of Europe are off limits for many – but some still make it work ...

Young people in Britain could be forgiven for despairing at the financial pressures they face – and feeling that previous generations enjoyed a much f ...

Starting with Andrew Tate, the alpha male phenomenon spread quickly online and slowly started to impact the behaviour of young men ...

The head of MI5 has warned that increasing numbers of young people are being exploited by criminals and “being drawn into poisonous online extremism” ...

Idris Elba has partnered with The Prince's Trust to launch a new project that aims to give a 'chance' to the young people of Manchester. The Elba Hope ...

This project will explore how injuries impact young people's mental well-being, self-identity, and their journey back to competitive sport. ...

Vaping damages young people’s lungs as much as smoking, according to research that has prompted fresh debate over the health risks of e-cigarettes. Th ...

More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers. A ...

Recent racist violence demands long-term anti-racism efforts, moving beyond performative gestures to meaningful action, addressing systemic issues and ...

New analysis from the County Councils Network (CCN) reveals this funding black hole is fuelled by rising demand and costs in just three service areas: ...

Hundreds of homeless young people, including dozens who are pregnant or have children, are being illegally turned away by councils when they ask for h ...

Speaking at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer told delegates that care leavers under 25 will be exempt f ...

More than 670,000 18–22-year-olds yet to claim their Child Trust Fund are reminded to cash in their stash as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) reveals the ...

The Metropolitan Police has launched the Children's Strategy, aimed at improving officers’ safeguarding knowledge and building trust with young people ...

What if it was easier for young people to find the support they needed? What if the sector was more open, sharing data, insights and knowledge? The Op ...

A major international study suggests there has been a sharp rise in what it calls "problematic" social media use among young people since the pandemic ...

Children in care and young care leavers in Wales are having to move their personal belongings in bin bags. The BBC heard from young people who saw the ...

Anti-poverty charity the Trussell Trust has shortened its name as part of a major rebrand designed to “remove barriers” for those using the charity’s ...

Third Sector editor Emily Burt and senior multimedia reporter Lucinda Rouse are joined by Ndidi Okezie, chief executive of UK Youth, to discuss the ne ...

Instagram is overhauling the way it works for teenagers, promising more "built-in protections" for young people and added controls and reassurance for ...

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 ...