Jackie Long
Who cares after young people leave care?
“They come from a system where they are supposed to be looked after and it feels like they leave the system and they just get left and thrown away.”
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RAAC: Parents protest school closures in Durham
Parents with children at a secondary school which has been largely closed for almost a month because of unsafe concrete have been holding a protest during a visit from the schools minister.
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Cookham Wood: weapons and violence rife at young offenders institute, report reveals
Children armed themselves with homemade weapons for protection at a young offenders institution in Kent where violence was rife – a damning report has revealed.
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Children bombarded with sexually explicit chat on Musical.ly and Live.ly
Children as young as nine are being groomed and bombarded with sexually explicit messages on popular social media app Musical.ly and streaming site Lively.
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Children trafficked to UK lost in system
Channel 4 News can reveal tonight the numbers of children who go missing every year from the care system after seeking asylum or being trafficked. For 19 year old Monique (not her real name), who was trafficked into the UK at 11, it was years before she got the help she needed.
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Jackie Long
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Jackie Long
Who cares? Record numbers of children in care facing poor outcomes
It costs more to keep a child in care than the fees for Eton, but the average care leaver still faces poor educational achievement and higher rates of mental health issues or imprisonment.
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Jackie Long
How we can stop children from sexually abusing other children
8,000 children under the age of 18 have been accused of sexually abusing another child over the past two years, offences including serious sexual assault and rape.
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Victoria Macdonald
‘Troubled’, judge releases critical ruling in grandparents’ adoption case
An “anxious” judge releases a previously private judgement into the case of two grandparents fighting to prevent their granddaughter from being adopted, after a Channel 4 News legal application.
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Jackie Long
Protecting children – what’s the point of serious case reviews?
Even before the guilty verdict was released, a serious case review into the death of Hamzah Khan was announced. But with 200 launched a year, all with similar findings, how long before something changes?
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Jackie Long
Schools under pressure for underperforming
Judging comprehensives against fee-paying selective schools is not comparing like with like, as the Chief Inspector should know only too well.
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Jackie Long
Children and porn: a generation warped by sadistic imagery?
With one youth worker telling Channel 4 News that boys as young as 11 ask him if it is OK to strangle a girl while having sex, is it time to tackle the issue of children and pornography head-on?
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Childcare winners and losers – FactCheck Q&A
From vouchers to credits, FactCheck digs in to the latest proposals from the government on childcare.