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Children with learning disabilities or autism living in mental health hospitals This report shows how too many children are being admitted to secure hospitals unnecessarily – in some cases are spending months and years of their childhood in institutions when they should be in their community. It warns that the current system of support for […]

Children locked up At any given time almost fifteen hundred children in England are ‘locked up’ in secure children’s homes, secure training centre, young offenders institutions, mental health wards and other residential placements, either for their own safety or the safety of others. These are some of the most vulnerable children in the country who, […]

We have long been concerned with the high numbers of children being excluded from mainstream schools, including those with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND). A recent report from IPPR, Making the Difference, argued that alongside the growing number of official exclusions, there are also significant issues with how unofficial exclusions are being used by […]

This report illustrates the findings of a data collection exercise to understand spending on low-level mental health services across England.

United Kingdom National Preventive Mechanism submission to the 66th session of the Committee against Torture

Improving safeguarding responses to gang violence and criminal exploitation

Evidence submitted to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee Inquiry into funding and provision of children’s services

How children disappear from England’s schools

A briefing by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England

A report on the data collected about children and how it might shape their lives.

Anne has written to the Chancellor ahead of Monday’s Budget to urge a family and child-friendly focus to spending. This is the briefing that we have sent to accompany our letter to the Chancellor, spelling out how money is currently being spent on children and what more we’d like done.

A rapid data review on groups of vulnerable babies aged under 1.