Derren Hayes

Derren Hayes

derren.hayes@markallengroup.com

Youth-centred mental health hubs could offer space spaces to tackle mental health problems. Picture: Andrey Popov
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General election 2019: Health

Evidence-based approaches are now being used and refined by a range of providers and practitioners. Picture: Rido/Adobe Stock
Features

Evidence and Impact: Special Report

Children's Services
Poverty and lack of English skills are among barriers potential Muslim foster carers face. Picture: Adobe Stock
News

Call to improve Muslim foster carer recruitment process

Social Care
Boris Johnson vowed to invest £14bn in schools. Picture: Conservatives
News

General Election: Conservative manifesto pledges £14bn for schools and crackdown on youth violence

Youth Justice
The Early Years Alliance describes a proposed £1bn new childcare fund as “loose change” from the Conservatives. Picture: Adobe Stock
News

Election 2019: Conservative manifesto lacks focus on children and young people, sector leaders warn

Education
Some 83 per cent of kinship carers asked said they were grandparents. Picture: Adobe Stock
News

End unfair treatment of kinship carers, says Sir James Munby

Social Care
Nearly two-thirds of teachers said they had seen an increase in hungry pupils. Picture: Shutterstock
News

Teachers report sharp increase in child poverty

Education
Figures showed more young young people not in training or employment than any time in the last three years
News

Level of Neet young people hits three-year high

Education
Labour have vowed to create a National Youth Service Image: Adobe Stock
News

Election 2019: Campaigners back Labour's £1bn investment pledge for youth work

Youth Work
ADCS head Rachel Dickinson has called for action on exclusion and off-rolling
News

ADCS president calls for review of head teachers' powers to exclude pupils

Education
Almost 700 children in the UK are at risk of domestic violence every day. Image: Action for Children
News

Almost 700 children at risk of domestic violence every day, study shows

Safeguarding and child protection
Jeremy Corbyn launches the Labour Party manifesto in Birmingham. Image: The Labour Party
News

Election 2019: Labour Party pledges £845m to improve children's mental health

Mental health
Campaigners have called for clarity over Ofsted's ruling on off-rolling
News

Calls for clarity over Ofsted off-rolling judgments

Ofsted
The ADCS has called for a shake-up to youth mental health services. Image: Adobe Stock
News

ADCS calls for shake up of ‘failing’ youth mental health services

Mental health
Education leaders have welcomed Labour's manifesto pledges on school funding Image: Adobe Stock
News

Election 2019: Education leaders praise Labour's vow to reverse school cuts

Education
The CRC covers a child's right to education and play. Image: Adobe Stock
News

Convention on the Rights of the Child: Two-thirds of young people ‘have never heard of act’

Citizenship