The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has made £1.5m available to children’s social care providers to put towards the cost of staff training.

More than half of the children detained for immigration reasons are psychologically damaged by their experience, according to research by Medical Justice.

Children are at risk of harm due to inadequate and late assessments by Kent County Council’s social services department, warns Ofsted.

Anna Bawden looks at how harsh spending cuts will hit those who use frontline services

Vulnerable children at risk as services countrywide struggle with post-Baby P increase in referrals, and the coalition government’s 25% spending cuts

A teenage girl who was allegedly pursued by a former youth club leader in Shropshire for sex delayed reporting his antics because she was scared of causing a crisis that would close a centre, a hearing was told.

Camden’s children’s services have been judged as one of only ten in the country to be performing excellently. Ofsted inspectors who examined the service in 2009 have produced a report highlighting Camden’s excellence and giving it the very highest possible rating.

Guidance and support for vulnerable children in the community must to be improved in order for cases of young people committing violent crime to be avoided, it has been claimed.

Staff and members of the public have staged a protest against proposed budget cuts and public services in Derbyshire.

Study finds people with drink or drug addictions have similar rates of violent crimes whether or not they have a mental illness