Welcome to 'Every Child in Need' in England

A campaign to protect society's most vulnerable children from damaging changes proposed by the Department for Education.

 

We are a wide group, comprising charities, campaigners, lawyers, professionals who work with vulnerable children, and affected children and families themselves. We are supported by many social workers, children's services managers and members of Local Safeguarding Children's Boards who share our concerns.  A number of professional bodies are also now supporting the campaign - including the Royal College of Nursing (the representative body for nurses and nursing, with 400,000 members) and the Law Society (which represents all solicitors in England and Wales). 

 

We work with and reach thousands of children across the country, including disabled children, children who have been trafficked, critically ill children, unaccompanied minors, and others facing challenges such as homelessness, physical and sexual violence (often gang-related), parental neglect, educational difficulties and behavioural or mental health problems. All of them are 'children in need.'

 

Learn more here.