We’re so proud to celebrate two years in partnership with our friends at Arcadis UK!

They’ve trekked, baked cakes and played football matches, all to raise an impressive £70,000+ for Action for Children.

A HUGE thank you from everyone at Action for Children ❤️

#CharityPartner

'Deeply-rooted social inequalities' have created a North-South divide in England in the rates of children entering care.

Analysis for Child of the North found while the North had 28% of England's child population, it had over 36% of the children in care.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

📈 Poverty is on the rise. More families than ever are struggling to afford the basic essentials like food, heating, a roof over their head.

30% of all children are growing up in poverty in the UK. Find out more bit.ly/3TVrfg4

#Poverty #CostOfLiving

Our research last year revealed wide school attainment gaps for children with a social care referral.

We're calling for the government to invest in rolling out family help services across all local authorities in England beyond 2025 👨‍👧💷

Read more: actionforchildren.org.uk/our-work-and-i…

New report shows Sure Start - a holistic, well-funded and targeted early years and family support programme - had lasting positive effect on child educational outcomes.

Moving forward, significant funding and a long-term vision are needed so families can get the right support.

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BREAKING - Recently released poverty stats for the UK show 100,000 more children are growing up in poverty in 2022/23 vs. 2021/22.

Read more 👇
actionforchildren.org.uk/blog/uk-povert…

New data highlights that many babies and young children are not getting the safe, happy, and healthy start to life that they deserve.

We're urging the next Government to put #ChildrenAtTheTable and make good childhoods a national priority.

Read more: childrenatthetable.org.uk/rise-in-child-…

We're sending our best wishes to our Royal Patron the Princess of Wales and her family at this difficult time.

Our statement...

Could not be prouder of the team at Action for Children today for working with Professor Alexis Jay to produce a massively rich report into child criminal exploitation. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-686157…

BBC online coverage below.

Fuller thread at some point today.

🧵I share Prof Jay's worries about children being groomed into gangs & I gave evidence to her review Action for Children

We urgently need a plan to tackle Child Criminal Exploitation, a statutory defn of CCE & for victims to get full specialist support. 1/2

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-686157…

'Tens of thousands' of UK children at risk of being groomed into crime gangs

mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/u…

We welcome this report on such a important issue. It emphasises the crucial need to view children impacted by criminal exploitation as victims, not criminals, aligning with UNCRC principles.

A report commissioned by the charity Action for Children says vulnerable children are being groomed into working for criminal gangs.

Professor Alexis Jay, the author of the report, explains the issues she found while writing it.

#R4Today

Thanks for your support of the #JayReview , Yvette Cooper.

We welcome The Labour Party's commitment to tackling this vital issue and urge all political parties to adopt our recommendations, which can be found in our new report:
actionforchildren.uk/JayReviewReport

Thread from our Policy and Campaigns Director, sharing details from the #JayReview of Criminally Exploited Children, published today 👇

#Exploitation #CountyLines #Safeguarding

4/4 📢 Introducing 'Shattered lives, stolen futures: The Jay Review of Criminally Exploited Children'.

Read our full report: bit.ly/4cmVfdk

#CriminalExploitation #CountyLines #Safeguarding

3/4 Criminals who exploit children are skilled at picking out young people they can manipulate. Often, these are children who feel like they don’t belong, including:

👉 Children excluded from school.
👉 Children who have been in care.
👉 Children with mental health problems.

1/4 The system designed to deal with criminally exploited children is not fit for purpose, our newly released Jay Review of Criminally Exploited Children reveals.

We're calling for a new offence of criminally exploited children & a national strategy to preventing exploitation.