Children and young people are being sent hundreds of miles away from home for mental health treatment - with sometimes deadly consequences - despite a government pledge to end these placements by the end of last year.
Two months ago, 20-year-old Lauren Bridges took her own life. She was alone...
Dorset Council’s Cabinet today approved plans to build a new residential care home, contact centre, activity space and residential accommodation for children and young people in the county.
Two sites in Weymouth are earmarked in the outline plans. One will be a purpose-built residential care home with a contact centre...
Plans are being drawn-up to build a new home for Dorset children.
The new home in Weymouth will give up to five Dorset children a better and more secure start in life.
The new building will be an asset to Dorchester Road. It will be designed to complement the area’s existing...
For the first time UNICEF has launched a domestic emergency response in the UK to help feed children hit by the COVID-19 crisis.
The UN agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide has likened the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on youngsters to that of the...
“I always knew I wanted to work in a museum, so being an apprentice at Shire Hall is great!”
Nathanial Green, 19, is an apprentice at Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum. This Apprentice Week (4-8 March,) he said it’s important to look at the skills apprenticeships give young people.
Nathanial studied...
