Teachers contacted child protection officials after a pupil complained of abuse by four older boys at the 627-year-old school last week.

Birmingham City Council and Housing 21 continue to buck the economic trend by working in partnership to construct a new multi-million pound extra care housing development at The Meadway, Yardley – the second one in Birmingham in a month.

A nursing home has won a planning appeal against Colchester Council. Inspector Christopher Anstey ruled in favour of Abberton Manor after hearing both sides of the debate in March.

The worst-taught degrees in the country have been exposed by disgruntled students, with subjects taught at Britain’s elite universities ranked among the worst performers.
 

A high proportion of suspected victims of child trafficking are disappearing from local authority care, according to an influential body of MPs.

Ofsted has published its revised plans on inspection of safeguarding and looked-after children, including unannounced inspections of child protection services in every local authority.

Britain’s leading adoption charity was forced to apologise and amend an official guide after it branded critics of gay adoption “retarded homophobes”.

Child and family social workers can continue to be hired from abroad after the government accepted the findings of the Migration Advisory Committee’s review.

Four in ten newspaper reports about social work breached the PCC editors’ code of practice and more than half were negative, according to research by a trade magazine.

Sue Ryder Care has called on the Government and NHS to strengthen their commitments to improving the provision and equality of access to end of life care