A review of Kent’s child protection services has identified more than 500 cases which raise cause for concern.

Funding for more GP-style social work practices for looked-after children has been approved, the Department for Education has announced.

Police investigating a group of men who allegedly groomed young girls for sex in Rochdale have made a series of arrests.

More vulnerable children will die at the hands of their parents because of funding cuts, the disgraced former children’s services boss Sharon Shoesmith has warned.

West Midlands Police have arrested a 20-year-old male nursery assistant on suspicion of child abuse.

A married couple have been jailed for assaulting children at former Jersey children’s home Haut de la Garenne.

The National Gold Standards Framework Centre, the provider of the UK’s largest end of life care training programme for care homes, has welcomed news of its endorsement by the National Skills Academy for Social Care.

A care home worker has been suspended following two incidents at Workington’s Amathea Care Home.

The closure of a specialist unit at Manchester Royal Infirmary resulted in mental health patients being sent to A&E.

BUREAUCRATS and politicians appointed to sort out Birmingham’s failing children’s social services have been accused of “not living in the real world”.