'Legal aid and the post implementation review' debate briefing
A briefing for MPs in advance of debate entitled 'Legal aid and the post implementation review' on Tuesday 4 September 2018.
Supplementary briefing - child exploitation - 'Supporting children in need into adulthood'
A briefing for MPs in advance of the debate entitled 'Supporting children in need into adulthood' focusing on child exploitation. The debate is taking place on Thursday 6th september 2018.
Supplementary briefing - mental health - 'Supporting children in need into adulthood'
Briefing for MPs in advance of the debate entitled 'Supporting children in need into adulthood' on 6th September 2018.
Home Office inquiry: asylum support rates call for written evidence
A response to a call for written evidence in response to the Home Office review into asylum support rates for 2018.
Fair Shares and Families: Rhetoric and reality in the lives of children and families in poverty
A piece of research led by Dr Gill Main at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with The Children's Society, exploring how families from across the socio-economic spectrum think, talk and act in relation to obtaining and sharing resources; and how children are involved in these processes.
Fair Shares and Families Report
Home Affairs Select Committee Modern Slavery Act inquiry submission
A written submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee in response to the inquiry on the Modern Slavery Act.
Debate briefing - 'Supporting children in need into adulthood'
A briefing for MPs in advance of the debate entitled 'Supporting children in need into adulthood' on Thursday 3 September 2018.
The Good Childhood Report 2018
Children are struggling with their identity and alarming numbers are self-harming.
Pressure to fit in is making children unhappy – from how they look, to their sexuality, to how boys and girls must behave. Twice as many girls are self-harming as boys, and almost half of children attracted to the same or both genders self-harm.
We’re urging the Government to make sure that every child can talk to a counsellor in their school.
The Good Childhood Report 2018, produced in partnership with the University of York, is the seventh in a series of annual reports published by The Children’s Society about how children in the UK feel about their lives.
Moving claimants to Universal Credit - response to Social Security Advisory Committee consultation
The Children's Society's response to the Social Security Advisory Committee's consultation on moving claimants to Universal Credit. Our response focuses on the Government’s proposals for transferring claimants in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium (SDP) to Universal Credit, with the SDP not being replicated within the new system. The removal of SDP under Universal Credit will have a profound impact on many severely disabled people. The Children’s Society is particularly concerned about the loss of the SDP on two groups with which it works – disabled single parents with young carers supporting them, and young disabled people first making the difficult move into independent living.