The Government received an A grade on online safety, for enacting legislation to criminalise the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, as well as appointing an Online Safety Commissioner.
The annual report criticised the lack of progress on plans to end the direct provision system, which have been setback by efforts to find accommodation for tens of thousand of Ukrainian refugees and asylum seekers from other countries. The Government’s performance tackling family homelessness received a D grade, due to the 3,442 children recorded as homeless at the end of last year.
When it came to youth mental health the Government received an E grade, due to the ongoing shortage of in-patient beds in the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services .