A key feature of Parliament’s select committees is our ability to examine how government policy is actually operating in ...

Practitioners are being given the chance to influence government early years policy as a parliamentary inquiry launches into ...

The government has launched its Families First Partnership (FFP) programme, backed by £500 million in funding over the next ...

Parents of the youngest disadvantaged children pay £105 a week more for early education and care than better off families, ...

It is Social Work Week – an event close to my heart as a former child and families social worker and manager. Around one in ...

If you had asked me in my youth, I would have said I was the typical teen going about my everyday life.

It felt wrong, as a director of children's services of a wave one Families First for Children (FFC) Pathfinder authority, not ...

The government’s planned overhaul of the school curriculum will go some way to helping disadvantaged pupils, but more work is ...

The government’s forthcoming child poverty strategy will fail if it does not focus on increasing families’ benefits and ...

The government’s National Curriculum and Assessment Review provides a once in a generation opportunity to refresh the ...

A mental health charity is calling for targeted investment in parenting support in deprived areas after a parent-child ...

Disadvantaged pupils are falling behind their peers at “disturbing” rates due to accelerating school absence since the ...