Teacher shortages are growing in England and government recruitment targets have been missed for four years, a report by the National Audit Office has concluded.

The BBC reports that the official spending watchdog warns that shortages are particularly bad in poorer areas and at secondary school level despite the overall number of teachers keeping pace with rising pupil numbers.

Source: CYPNow Online

A total of 1,040 applications for children to be taken into care were made to the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service in January 2016, statistics show. The figure represents a 16 per cent increase on the same month last year, when a total of 893 care applications were made.

Source: CYPnow –

World Youth Organisation  – www.worldyo.org

We are please to be supporting the Launch of the new World Youth Organisation Charity, we look forward to working with them in 2016.

please do visit their new website – www.worldyo.org

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Teachers banned for sex talk and relationships with pupils

Nearly 40% of teachers banned from the profession in Wales in the last two years have been struck off for having “inappropriate” relationships or conversations with pupils.

Education Workforce Council figures showed 13 of 34 staff were barred for such conduct from August 2013 to 2015.

Two more were suspended, while three others were banned for other misconduct involving sexual content.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35052128

Children’s commissioner calls for review of children’s services cuts

There is an urgent need to review how funding cuts to children’s services are affecting children, the children’s commissioner for England has told MPs.

https://shar.es/16derp

This is the first report of the Children’s Commissioner’s inquiry into child sex abuse within the family and its network. Although child sex abuse is the subject of considerable public concern, abuse within families has been largely absent from the national conversation. This is despite the fact that the majority of victims are abused by someone within their family network, which has a particular impact on the victims themselves and the entire family structure. This report is a critical analysis of the scale and nature of this form of child sex abuse, bringing to light revealing statistics about the extent of abuse known to authorities and estimates of that which goes unreported.

Report downloads

• Full original report 
• Summary (shorter) version
• Version for children and young people

Source: Children’s Commissioner

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Child Protection Training UK are pleased to announce that we will be working in partnership with the World Youth Organization.  We will be providing Child Protection Training to their trustees.

Please do take a look at the Workd Youth Organization’s website and Facebook page

New study reveals 30,000 fewer children bullied in last 10 years.

Bullying and violence in English schools has plummeted in the last decade, a major new study has revealed.

The landmark study involving more than 10,000 secondary school pupils shows that:

• 30,000 fewer children in England now face the fear of bullying compared to 2005
• robbery between pupils has halved – last year just 1% of children reported being robbed

The new figures come as part of the government’s continued drive to deliver an excellent education for every child – and make sure teachers have the tools they need to tackle bullying and violence in schools.

A range of tough new powers have been introduced since 2010 to enable heads and teachers to retake control of their classrooms. On top of this, the government has pledged to train every teacher in not just how to tackle serious behaviour issues, but how to deal with low-level disruption that stops children from learning properly.

Strengthened measures already in use in our classrooms include:

• stronger powers to search pupils
• removing the requirement to give parents 24 hours’ written notice of after-school detentions
• clarifying teachers’ power to use reasonable force to control unruly pupils

Teachers also now have greater powers to tackle cyberbullying by searching for and deleting inappropriate images on mobile phones and tablets. In addition, £3.3 million is being made available this year to charitable organisations to help tackle bullying and provide support for those who are bullied. This is on top of the £4 million provided in 2013 to 2015.

Source: Gov.UK – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bullying-in-school-plummets

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