NCB Social Inclusion Department seminar notes More and more people with a learning disability are choosing to become parents yet between 40-60% of them will at some stage have their children taken away from them.
NCB Social Inclusion Department seminar notes More and more people with a learning disability are choosing to become parents yet between 40-60% of them will at some stage have their children taken away from them.
This resource gives you online access to: a catalogue of over 80,000 records of books, reports and journal articles; press coverage of issues affecting children, collected since 1996; a comprehensive directory of over 3,000 child care organisations; and details of forthcoming major conferences and events. Available by subscription.
This resource gives you online access to: a catalogue of over 80,000 records of books, reports and journal articles; press coverage of issues affecting children, collected since 1996; a comprehensive directory of over 3,000 child care organisations; and details of forthcoming major conferences and events. Available by subscription.
Subject terms:
information services, child care, children, databases;
Includes lists on: young offenders, addictions, adoption and fostering, AIDS, child abuse, health, childbirth and early child care, hearing and visual impairment, children's rights, disability, ethnic minority children, family centres, holidays, play, one parent families, and training for work with children.
Includes lists on: young offenders, addictions, adoption and fostering, AIDS, child abuse, health, childbirth and early child care, hearing and visual impairment, children's rights, disability, ethnic minority children, family centres, holidays, play, one parent families, and training for work with children.
Subject terms:
organisations, young people, child care, children;
This briefing explores the main ways in which housing can impact on young children’s health, and highlights how these risks and needs will be evolving as a result of the current policy and financial landscape. It poses suggestions and questions about how voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations working with children and families, including housing associations, may want...
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This briefing explores the main ways in which housing can impact on young children’s health, and highlights how these risks and needs will be evolving as a result of the current policy and financial landscape. It poses suggestions and questions about how voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations working with children and families, including housing associations, may want to adjust their offer in light of how these issues may be affecting their clients. It focuses on local action to mitigate the health risks that housing issues can pose. Throughout the briefing quotes from parents of young children, taken from National Children’s Bureau’s recent research, are included to illustrate some of the health challenges discussed.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
housing, health, children, voluntary sector, social enterprises;
Using data gathered from 79 local authorities in England for a given day in 2014 from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, this briefing looks at the numbers of children who are missing education and the reasons for this. Across the 79 local authorities, on a given day, 7,701 children were recorded as missing. These included those: who were awaiting a place in school or alternative provision...
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Using data gathered from 79 local authorities in England for a given day in 2014 from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, this briefing looks at the numbers of children who are missing education and the reasons for this. Across the 79 local authorities, on a given day, 7,701 children were recorded as missing. These included those: who were awaiting a place in school or alternative provision; whose were whereabouts unknown; Gypsy, Roma or Traveller communities, elective home education, and those excluded from school. The report also highlights key factors that could help local authorities work more effectively in identifying and supporting children missing from education. Inconsistencies in the methods local authorities used to collect data on children missing education were also identified.
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Subject terms:
local authorities, education, children, school attendance, school children;
NCB worked with the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) to calculate what cuts to statutory funding the core children’s voluntary sector might expect to see over the five years from 2010/11 to 2015/16. The analysis draws on data from the most recent available accounts of the 34,000 charities whose primary beneficiaries are children and young people, and on central and local...
NCB worked with the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) to calculate what cuts to statutory funding the core children’s voluntary sector might expect to see over the five years from 2010/11 to 2015/16. The analysis draws on data from the most recent available accounts of the 34,000 charities whose primary beneficiaries are children and young people, and on central and local government spending forecasts from HM Treasury, the Office for Budget Responsibility, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and the Department for Communities and Local Government. Findings revealed that children and young people’s charities face public funding cuts that will rise year on year, reaching losses of almost £129 million in real terms in 2015/16 compared to 2010/11. This represents a loss of almost £405 million over the 2011/12 to 2015/16 period. The most significant cuts in direct central government spend on the children’s voluntary sector are expected to come from the Home Office/Ministry of Justice; Department for Education; and Department for Culture, Media and Sport. This was likely to hit services like youth offending teams, early childhood and youth services, and those providing cultural and sporting opportunities.
Subject terms:
young people, charities, children, cutbacks, fund raising;
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BUREAU
Publisher:
Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
Publication year:
2005
Pagination:
126p.
Place of publication:
London
The National Evaluation of Childrens Trusts was formally commissioned in April 2004 by the Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Health. The evaluation is being undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of academics based at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, in association with the National Childrens Bureau. This interim evaluation report covers work completed during
The National Evaluation of Childrens Trusts was formally commissioned in April 2004 by the Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Health. The evaluation is being undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of academics based at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, in association with the National Childrens Bureau. This interim evaluation report covers work completed during the first phase of the evaluation between April and October 2004.
GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, COUNCIL FOR DISABLED CHILDREN, NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BUREAU
Publisher:
Great Britain. Department of Health
Publication year:
2000
Pagination:
24p.,bibliog.
Place of publication:
London
Report presenting an initial analysis of local authority responses to the Quality Protects programme, with special reference to disabled children. The analysis is presented under the following headings: information, coordinating and sharing; eligibility criteria, assessment and review; disabled children living away from home; children with challenging behaviour; relationships between services...
Report presenting an initial analysis of local authority responses to the Quality Protects programme, with special reference to disabled children. The analysis is presented under the following headings: information, coordinating and sharing; eligibility criteria, assessment and review; disabled children living away from home; children with challenging behaviour; relationships between services for children with special educational needs and disabled children; consultation with disabled children and young people; consultation with parents; working with disabled children from minority ethnic communities; awareness of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; and managing transition.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, quality assurance, social care provision, children, government policy;
This Programme Insight aims to collate and share the learning emerging from A Better Start (ABS) on a range of key programme outcome areas in order to inform the work of others in improving outcomes for young children. A Better Start is place-based and enabling systems change. It aims to improve the way that organisations work together and with families to shift attitudes and spending towards...
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This Programme Insight aims to collate and share the learning emerging from A Better Start (ABS) on a range of key programme outcome areas in order to inform the work of others in improving outcomes for young children. A Better Start is place-based and enabling systems change. It aims to improve the way that organisations work together and with families to shift attitudes and spending towards preventing problems that can start in early life. There is a strong link between inequalities and life adversity, with children living with multiple inequalities (e.g. poverty and disability) more likely to experience negative outcomes, and adults living in poverty more likely to have experienced childhood adversity themselves. ABS programmes and services have a key role to play, both in addressing inequalities and bridging the gaps between families, and they have the potential to make a lasting difference. The Insight is structured as follows: the role of ABS in addressing inequalities and supporting positive outcomes for all infants and their families; the impact of inequalities on the life course; current policy developments which target inequality; case studies from across ABS partnerships, demonstrating how each is addressing inequality within their local communities. A variety of evidence is embedded throughout the work of ABS, at programme, partnership and service level, and while there have been challenges along the way, there have also been many opportunities for learning as partnerships have developed their approaches. Common lessons emerging from the programme include: early intervention and universal services for pregnant people and families is a crucial avenue to target the negative impacts of inequality; services led by the communities they serve, ensuring parents and carers have a say in what services are offered to families, based on what they need; awareness of systemic racism and an anti-racist approach; effective data and information sharing across multiagency teams.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
inequalities, poverty, early intervention, children, intervention, evaluation, family support;
GERAGHTY Teresa, LYONS Frances, NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BUREAU
Publisher:
National Children's Bureau
Publication year:
2021
Pagination:
100
Place of publication:
London
This report presents an in-depth look at the impacts of COVID-19 on the lives of families of children with SEND, giving them a voice to tell their story and share their experiences, over a six-month period of time. In total, 60 in-depth interviews and 4 focus groups were held with participants from across Northern Ireland between late October and mid March 2021. The report covers the key findings...
(Edited publisher abstract)
This report presents an in-depth look at the impacts of COVID-19 on the lives of families of children with SEND, giving them a voice to tell their story and share their experiences, over a six-month period of time. In total, 60 in-depth interviews and 4 focus groups were held with participants from across Northern Ireland between late October and mid March 2021. The report covers the key findings under the following themes: COVID-19 creating a double disadvantage for children and young people with SEND; the impact on mental health and wellbeing; the impact on education, development and employment; support from other agencies; the impact on family life; and participants’ priorities for the near future. A recurring message from both parents and practitioners was that children with SEND were the ‘forgotten ones’ when the measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 were implemented. The study finds that both the physical and mental health and wellbeing of young people and parents were impacted by the pandemic and the lockdown measures introduced to combat it. School and college closures had a profound, largely negative effect on children and young people with SEND, not only due to the loss of learning but also the loss of routine, access to therapies, specialised equipment such as sensory equipment and social opportunities with peers. Priorities identified by the participants for the short term, in meeting the needs of children and young people with SEND as the pandemic continued, included the following: clear and consistent communication from government; keep educational and respite facilities open; speed up the SEN system, so as to better meet the needs of children; see education holistically; enhance mental health provision; have more coherence across government to meet the needs of disabled people.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
children, Covid-19, disabilities, education, mental health, special educational needs, young people;