Children Within Families Subject to No Recourse to Public Funds
This briefing provides an overview of the problems faced by children within families subject to no recourse to public funds.
Designing community emotional well-being support for South Asian young people and their families
This briefing outlines the findings from insight work carried out in Birmingham in July 2018 in order to understand the under-representation of South Asian young people in emotional well-being services.
Improving the Lives of Disadvantaged Children at Secondary School
This research briefing follows the publication of our project launch report and is the first in a series of briefings, each of which will focus on a particular topic. This research briefing describes the experiences of children in low income households at secondary school.
Preventing and responding to serious youth violence
A briefing for parliamentarians on preventing and responding to serious youth violence.
APPG Inquiry into Out of Area Care Placements
General call for evidence for submissions into the APPG inquiry on out of area care placements for looked after children.
Loneliness in childhood: Exploring loneliness and well-being among 10-17 year olds
The Children's Society and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) worked jointly to develop a set of questions to measure loneliness among children. This briefing explores how loneliness relates to children's subjective well-being and their material circumstances,
Nowhere to Turn Campaign Report
Many families in this country will at some time find themselves facing a ‘financial crisis’ point – a financial problem which puts the immediate health and well-being of family members at risk. Examples include running out of money for food or for fuel during a period of cold weather, or a key household item such as a fridge or boiler breaking down. If these immediate crises are not rectified quickly, then the impact could be severe, even in the short term.
The Nowhere to Turn Report explores why families are falling into crisis, the impact it has on families with children, and the changes to the system of crisis support.
Children and young people’s services: Funding and spending 2010/11 to 2017/18
Joint analysis by The Children’s Society, Action for Children, Barnardo’s, NSPCC, and the National Children’s Bureau, showing the extent of cuts to children and young people's services. It finds that funding has fallen by £3 billion between 2010-11 and 2017-18 – a 29% reduction. Funding per child and young person has dropped from £813 in 2010-11 to £553 in 2017-18. At the same time, local authority spending on children and young people’s services fell by 16%. Diminishing funding, as demand on local authority children’s services increased, has left a funding gap which reached £1.4bn in 2017/18. Meanwhile, spending on early intervention services for children and young people, such as children’s centres, has fallen by 49%.
Knife Crime Prevention Order Briefing
Parliamentary Briefing on Knife Crime Prevention Orders.
Funding and spending on children’s services (2017/18) - Parliamentary briefing
The Children’s Society, Action for Children, Barnardo’s and National Children’s Bureau are urging central government to address the funding gap facing local authority children’s services that is expected to reach £3bn by 2024/25. Ahead of the 2019 Spending Review, this Parliamentary Briefing summarises our joint analysis of the latest trends in funding and spending on children and young people’s services, illustrating the scale of the challenges facing local authorities.