An inquiry has reported “extensive failures by local authorities and police” in tackling gangs that sexually abuse and exploit children. The report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse found that authorities and police forces may have downplayed the abuse due to concerns about negative publicity. Attackers were using “new ways” to groom younger children via social media …
Category «Youth»
Book Now for the Family Education Trust Annual Conference 2022!
We are thrilled to be able to announce that bookings are now open for our 2022 Annual Conference. This FREE event will be held at the RAF Club in central London from 10.30am to 4.30pm on Saturday 21st May. Our guest speakers include Professor David Paton from the University of Nottingham, who will be speaking …
Winter Bulletin Out Now!
Welcome to the Winter bulletin! Many of you may be feeling rather down about the state of the world at the moment, with uncertainty over new variants of Covid and the ongoing identity wars in society. However, there is some good news with the Government recently announcing that it is extending the consultation on the …
Letter objecting to the Health & Wellbeing Census of children in Scotland
We have written a letter to Humza Yousaf, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in Scotland, to object to the Scottish National Health and Wellbeing Census which all school children are being encouraged to respond to. We are disturbed by some of the questions being asked which we believe are not appropriate when asked …
Interview with children’s author Rachel Rooney
Rachel Rooney trained and worked as a teacher of Special Needs for many years before re-discovering her love of writing poetry. She taught for many years across a range of school settings and has particular interest and experience working with pupils with ASC (Autism). She is now an award-winning children’s poet and picture book writer. …