Publication Database

Introduction of T Levels

23-Aug-19

Department for Education

The Department for Education has published a policy paper and guidance on the new technical qualification, T Levels, due to launch in 2020. 

Employment, training and skills

We Are Ghosts': Race, Class and Institutional Prejudice

23-Aug-19

Class

The report is a case-study of working-class communities in London, and comes as a result of a two-year long collaboration between The Runnymede Trust and The Centre for Social and Labour Studies.

Equalities

Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England

23-Aug-19

Childrens Commisioner

The report reveals the reality of how some children are living in converted shipping containers and office blocks, and B&Bs, in cramped conditions, often miles away from their schools

Economic Equality

Prepare your local authority children’s services for Brexit

30-Aug-19

Department for Education

The Department for Education (DfE) has published guidance for local authority children’s services in England on how to prepare in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

Politics

Parents raising children in box containers shows the severity of the housing emergency

30-Aug-19

Shelter Blog

Shelter CEO Polly Neate has published a blog responding to the two recent reports of the growing number of families being housed in cramped and unsuitable accommodation for lengthening periods of time (including the report on overcrowding by the National Housing Federation). These are human rights abuses, she says, damning but unsurprising.

Economic equality

Conscription by poverty? Deprivation and army recruitment in the UK

30-Aug-19

CRIN

Child Rights International Network (CRIN) has published a report examining the impact of army recruitment of young people under the age of 18 in the UK, particularly on recruits from a stressful childhood background. 

Employment, training and skills

Violent Youth Crime: Five take - aways from NLGNS latest leadership index survey

30-Aug-19

NLGN

NLGN's latest survey of council leaders looks at how they are experiencing trends in violent youth crime, the most common forms of which are currently anti-social behaviour; drug offences; and gang-linked violence (in descending order). 

Crime

Explaining Variation in Spending – Childrens Services

06-Sep-19

Local Government Association

The Local Government Association has published analysis of why spending on children's social care varies from around £274 per 0-25 year old in some local authorities to around £1,057 in others. 

Services

Not another one' - What charities need to know about a snap election

06-Sep-19

NCVO

NCVO has published a brief blog on the prospect of a snap General Election being called and how charities might want to adjust their campaigns accordingly, saying "The first thing to note is it will make it much harder to influence parties’ manifestos. 

Politics

Living Hand To Mouth

06-Sep-19

Child Poverty Action Group

Living Hand to Mouth, by Rebecca O’Connell, Abigail Knight and Julia Brannen from the Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, reports on the UK findings of the Families and Food in Hard Times study, highlighting the experiences and voices of children and families in low-income households.

Economic Equalities