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Key messages from research on child sexual exploitation

These short ‘Key Messages from Research’ briefings bring together current research on child sexual exploitation with implications for practice and strategic commissioning. Each pair of ‘Key Messages...

Adult social care: a pre- Budget report

Adult social care provides care and support of a personal and practical nature to adults of all ages with care needs to enable them to lead independent and fulfilling lives. For some years now,...

‘You Can’t Grow Roses in Concrete’

In mid-2014, Munro, Turnell and Murphy Child Protection Consulting (MTM) succeeded in securing English government innovations funding to work intensively with ten local authorities over eighteen...

Care of dying adults in the last days of life

Quality statements Statement 1 Adults who have signs and symptoms that suggest they may be in the last days of life are monitored for further changes to help determine if they are nearing death,...

Cheap as chips: Is a healthy diet affordable?

There is a common belief that healthy eating is unaffordable and that ‘junk food’ is cheap. In 2014, it was reported that ‘Healthy foods cost three times as much as unhealthy foods’ (Telegraph) and...

GP Services in Wales: The Perspective of Older People

Overall, it is clear that GP services and the wider primary care offer is highly valued by older people across Wales. However, while many older people reported positive experiences of using GP...

Local support for people with a learning disability

A learning disability is generally defined as reduced intellectual ability and difficulty with everyday activities – for example household tasks, socialising or managing money – that affects someone...

Helping Parents to Parent

• Official data reveals that in the last decade more than 2.5 million children in England, including over 580,000 children known to be eligible for free school meals, had not reached the Government’s...

Public health transformation four years on: Maximising the use of limited resources

This year’s compilation of case studies shows how local authorities continue to make progress on improving health and wellbeing and tackling health inequalities since public health was formally...

Maintaining our momentum: Essays on four years of public health

Public health made the formal transfer to local government in April 2013, and in the last four years great strides have been made to tackle the wider social and economic determinants of poor health...

Socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour report

Suicide is a complex and multi-faceted behaviour, resulting from a wide range of genetic, psychological, psychiatric, social, economic and cultural risk factors which interact to increase...

Dying from inequality: Socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour

Living in poverty shouldn’t mean losing your life. Going through difficult times, like losing your job or being in debt, shouldn’t mean not wanting to live. But that is what’s happening in the UK and...

Local and National: How the public wants the NHS to be both

OUTSIDE OF GREATER Manchester there has been very little public debate about healthcare devolution. So how does the public in England react to the idea of NHS localism, in the absence of any...

Findings and Recommendations of the Youth Custody Improvement Board

The Youth Custody Improvement Board (YCIB) was asked by the previous Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove, to explore and report on the current state of the youth custodial estate and...

Implementaion of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: submission to inform the CRPD list of issues on the UK

This submission to the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities focuses on children and young people in England.

Growing up in Scotland: father-child relationships and child socio-emotional wellbeing

This Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study of father-child relationships aims to promote greater understanding of the role of fathers, and factors that strengthen father-child relationships. This should...

Responding to domestic abuse: A resource for health professionals

Responding to Domestic Abuse: A Resource for Health Professionals, aims to support continuing improvement in the response from health and care services and allied healthcare partners. Drawing on the...

Unaccompanied child migrants: Thirteenth Report of Session 2016–17

20,000 unaccompanied children arrived in Italy by sea in the first nine months of 2016, up from 16,500 in 2015, with a further 2,300 in Greece. In 2015, 3,253 unaccompanied children claimed asylum in...

Our Lives, Our Care: Looked after children’s views on their well-being

Listening to children and young people’s wishes and feelings should be universal, but it isn’t. How children feel about their lives and the care they receive should be central to understanding the...
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Minutes - England Committee, 22nd February 2017

Voices of older people affected by a loved one’s substance use

Adfam’s Older Carers group is funded by the City Bridge Trust of the City of London to address the isolation faced by older carers of those with drug or alcohol problems. Looking around this...

Inheriting a sustainable world? Atlas on children’s health and the environment

In 2015, 26% of the deaths of 5.9 million children who died before reaching their fifth birthday could have been prevented through addressing environmental risks – a shocking missed opportunity. The...

Don’t pollute my future! The impact of the environment on chidren’s health

In 2015, 5.9 million children under age five died. The major causes of child deaths globally are pneumonia, prematurity, intrapartum-related complications, neonatal sepsis, congenital anomalies,...

Funding social care: the role of deffered payment agreements

England’s social care system is widely believed to be in crisis. As the population ages, the number of people requiring adult social care and support is on the rise. At the same time, local...

Everybody Active, Every Day: Two years on

Around one in two women and a third of men in England are damaging their health through a lack of physical activity. Over one in four women and one in five men are classified as ‘inactive’ by doing...

Contact after adoption: the role of contact in contemporary adoption

This presentation reviews the evidence from research about different types of contact after adoption, with a range of birth relatives. It draws heavily on two studies carried out at UEA, but also...

Households below a Minimum Income Standard: 2008/09–2014/15

For the first time, this report makes estimates of the risk of living in a household with an income below MIS for the entire population. It also uses the proportion living below 75% of MIS as an...

NHS reform at pace and scale

After the so-called NHS “winter crisis”, it may seem strange to say this, but I am more optimistic about the progress of health reform than at any time during Reform’s 15 years so far. Interviewed in...

Sentencing Children and Young People: Overarching Principles and Offence Specific Guidelines for Sexual Offences and Robbery

The Sentencing Council issues this definitive guideline in accordance with section 120 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. It applies to all children or young people, who are sentenced on or after...

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Dataset

The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Dataset (SCCI 2026) supports the Department of Health’s FGM Prevention Programme by presenting a national picture of the prevalence of FGM in England. Key...

Living Standards, Poverty and Inequality in the UK: 2016–17 to 2021–22

Debates over living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK are often hampered by the fact that official data on household incomes are available only with a significant lag. Currently, the latest...

Families on the edge - Building a comprehensive European work-life balance reality

Europe is living a number of deep transformations, which have been systematically avoided until now. Demography and the ageing population, youth unemployment and skills mismatch, waste of the...

Solved!: Making the case for collaborative problem-solving

Every generation has to ask anew what skills and knowledge are most essential for children to learn. Some of the answers change little – like being able to read and write, or to master maths. Others...

The social care funding gap: implications for local health care reform

The financial pressures being experienced by the NHS in England are severe and mounting. More than half of NHS trusts are in the red and NHS providers are forecasting a total overspend of £873m* for...

Children in Charge: imagining ‘systemic reform’ and redesign in care commissioning for children

This paper is an attempt at rethinking the systemic problems facing the funding and commissioning of care services and placements for children in need of care and adoption, across ALL types and...

The time for talking is over. Now is the time to act: Race in the workplace

In the UK today we face significant challenges developing our economy in a world that is changing rapidly. Technology in particular is disrupting old industries and creating new ones at an...

Better Beginings: Improving Health for Pregnancy

This review brings together recent evidence on improving health and wellbeing before, during, and after pregnancy from studies funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR...

Early development and children's later educational outcomes

Giving every child the best start in life is more than a question of fairness: it's an essential requirement for a country that works for everyone.. This briefing paper shows that if children are...

State of Children’s Rights in England 2016: Policing & Criminal Justice

The UK ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1991. This means that all areas of government and the state; including local government, schools, health services, and criminal...

State of Children’s Rights in England 2016: Health

The UK ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1991. This means that all areas of government and the state; including local government, schools, health services, and criminal...

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