Four high-profile cases have focused attention on a form of abuse often underplayed – child neglect. But, asks Mark Ivory, at what point should protection workers intervene?

An approved school housemaster from West Yorkshire who became a scout leader and council director of social services carried out a string of sex attacks on vulnerable boys at a school over a period of years, a court has heard.

Trying to reunite maltreated children with families runs a high risk of failure, report shows

TUC backs co-ordinated action including walkouts and protests targeted at vulnerable MPs, to avert ‘more brutish’ society

Charities providing key services for children and young people in London are facing closure under plans to shake up a grant scheme, it has been claimed.

Anglia Ruskin University is to launch a new research institute for the East of England which will listen to the ‘voices’ of children and young people.

Meals on wheels, free fruit at school and social care services for the elderly were “hanging by a thread” as councils across the UK braced themselves for the heftiest cuts in a generation, the country’s biggest trade union warned today.

Pressure is mounting on government to ensure funding to help children’s homes to improve does not suffer, in light of plans to instigate a sector-led approach to strengthen residential childcare.

A report calling for the reform of laws that make it hard for people with criminal convictions to get a job has been released.

Ofsted review says many pupils diagnosed as having special educational needs require better teaching or pastoral care