Tag: Barnardo’s

Barnardo’s to expand specialist support for trafficked children across every local authority in England and Wales

Stuart Mitchell

A vital Barnardo’s service that supports child victims of modern slavery and trafficking is being rolled out across all local authorities in England and Wales. The expanded Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship (ICTG) service will make sure more children who have experienced, or are at risk of, trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation can access the specialist support they need to stay safe, recover and rebuild their lives. The new £25m contract from the Home Office will see the service rolled out to areas not currently covered, building on more than a…

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Children as young as 13 exposed to abuse being normalised by online misogynistic content

Stuart Mitchell

Online abuse and harassment are “constant, corrosive and deeply embedded” for young people across the country, according to a Barnardo’s-commissioned poll of 4,000 young people in the UK about their experiences of online misogyny. The results from thousands of 13- to 20-year-olds show how they experience misogyny online –   over a quarter (28%) of girls in Scotland saying they’d been called degrading names online and five in seven (72%[1] )  boys are saying they believed they are expected to “act tough and not show emotion”. The findings also highlight how…

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“We feel safe now” – children praise Barnardo’s England adoption services in Ofsted report

Stuart Mitchell

Ofsted have praised Barnardo’s Adoption Services in England as ‘outstanding’ in a new report. The inspection, which took place earlier this year and was published in April, highlighted that children have “exceptional relationships with their parents which are built on trust and love” and quoted an adopted child saying “we feel safe now”. Barnardo’s Adoption Services help families to adopt across England, as well as access to records for adopted adults and birth family members. One adopter, quoted in the report, wrote: “Staff were genuinely invested in us as a…

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Telford teens put sustainable fashion in the spotlight

Stuart Mitchell

Six young people aged 12-15 from Telford put sustainable fashion under the spotlight this weekend with a fundraising fashion show in aid of Barnardo’s, who are working in partnership with retailer Co-op to support positive futures for young people across the UK.  “This is an amazing opportunity,” said 15-year-old Caelan, from Wellington. “We had the idea to do a fashion show using only second-hand clothes from local charity shops, and the Barnardo’s staff made it happen. It’s been so much fun.” Caelan is a regular attendee at CALM (Crafts, Activities,…

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Barnardo’s and AstraZeneca team up on the Young Health Programme to support thousands of children, young people and families in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Children and young people living in poverty in the UK will gain better access to healthy food, help create a healthy living toolkit and become advocates for health policy thanks to a new partnership announced today between the children’s charity Barnardo’s and AstraZeneca, as part of the pharmaceutical company’s Young Health Programme UK. Around 2.6 million children in the UK are living in food insecure households (18% of all children)* with a lack of access to a nutritious diet which can create life-long impacts on their health.  Those benefitting from the partnership will include children and young people with experience of growing up in care, who are living alone for the first time and young…

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