Health providers are urging ministers to ensure children’s health is a priority in its forthcoming NHS Plan and Comprehensive ...

Over the past decade, demand for children and young people's services across the NHS has increased dramatically. The Covid-19 ...

Just under half of approved applications for therapeutic support for adopted children made last year were above the ...

Youth sector representatives have welcomed a pledge by the UK and the EU to work on creating a scheme that could see young ...

Government figures from February 2025 reveal that 987,000 young people aged 16 to 24 in the UK are currently classified as ...

A report published by the Parent-Infant Foundation this week shows that investing in nurturing parent-infant relationships ...

The government must take “strong action on all fronts” to tackle violence against women and girls, an influential committee ...

The Department for Education has announced a funding boost of up to £49 million to provide 900,000 more pupils with mental ...

A plan to “make play normal” again – including a call for play to become a statutory duty – has been launched in Westminster.

The government must act urgently to tackle the early years workforce crisis or risk families – many in deprived areas – being turned away for the funded childcare entitlement, the YMCA is warning.

Early help spending on children aged four and under has halved since 2010 - with money instead being diverted to urgent and ...