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Over 210,000 children are estimated to be homeless in the UK and many are temporarily living in converted shipping containers. The Children’s Commissioner for England said the contains are not fit to live in. Families are housed in to coverted ship contains and office blocks, families are living in squashed small spaces. The councils are…
Facebook and Instagram face a ban on letting under 18s ‘like’ posts on their social media platforms whilst snapchat could be prevented from allowing the same age group to build up ‘streaks’. This is all under the new rules proposed by the UK’s data watchdog. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said these techniques exploit “human…
Parents with home-educated children will be required to register the children with their local authority under government proposals to prevent young people from disappearing under the radar. There is an estimated 60,000 children who are thought to be home-schooled in the UK. This rises every year by around a quarter. The register will enable authorities…
According to figures obtained by children’s rights campaigners, half of the children shot by police with stun guns and a third of those restrained using spit hood in England are black or from other minority ethnic groups. In the first of nine months of last year police in England used electronic stun guns 839 times…
One third of children and young people with mental health conditions receive the treatment they need from NHS. Many are turned away because they are not ill enough, others are facing long waits and it could be years before this all changes. Reports show that getting the right staff in the right place was a…
Thousands of children in England with special educational needs are waiting too long for an education, health and care plan (EHC). The EHC plans set out a child’s needs and the support to which they are entitled. Once the plan is requested the law says councils should normally finalise them within 20 weeks. However, four…
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