Nearly 30,000 children were taken into care last year, figures showed today.  A total of 67,050 youngsters – nearly 7,000 more than the capacity of Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium – were looked after by English social services departments in the year to March, according to the Department for Education.

Decisions to not prosecute some individuals over allegations of abuse at Jersey’s Haut de la Garenne should be reviewed, says a childcare expert.

The degree to which early years professionals are educated has a bigger impact on improving social mobility than the ratio of staff to children in pre-school settings, a report by The Sutton Trust has claimed.

New campaign launches to tackle dementia stigma and drive concerned people to consult their GP, by Alistair Burns

The children’s commissioner is appealing to teachers to accept more responsibility for spotting signs of child neglect. She talks to Louise Tickle.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council paid the former director of children’s services Dr Sharon Menghini just short of £350,000 in 2011/12, it has been revealed.

More than a third report increased hours in the last year and most spend just 15% of their time face-to-face with service users

More than a third report increased hours in the last year and most spend just 15% of their time face-to-face with service users

Reforming elderly care is not the biggest priority and just one of many problems on the “long term horizon”, Danny Alexander, a Treasury minister, has said.

Care services minister Norman Lamb has said social care reform should not be funded from the NHS budget because the health service is already under financial pressure.