January's Pulse includes:

• The NSPCC’s Annual Review of ChildLine
• A Department for Education review of Special Guardianship Orders
• Reports from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on: monitoring poverty and social exclusion, and dementia friendly communities
• A report by the Prison Reform Trust on improving the sentencing process and outcomes for women with dependent children
• A new tool by the Office for National Statistics to measure children’s mental-ill health as part of the assessment of their wellbeing
• Guidance on shared planning by NHS England
• Home Office briefings on serious organised crime and crime and policing