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14 April 2026

Tag: children in need

The (virtual) heads dealing with a kids in care crisis

The role of virtual heads is “vital now more than ever” in a post-pandemic world where vulnerable pupils have further lost out, the government has said. Virtual heads will from this month support the attendance, attainment and progress of children in kinship care – the latest expansion of their role since the support was made […]

Schools are referring more pupils to social services

Schools are sending more vulnerable children to social care services, with more than 110,000 cases last year, the latest government data has revealed. In 2016-17, schools were responsible for referring 114,530 children in need to social care services, an increase of nearly 11,000 compared with the previous year. This was 17.7 per cent of the […]