The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has announced that following the success of last year’s Occupational Group Funding initiative, it is making a new batch of funding available to support training and development in the children and young people’s sector during 2007-08.

Care workers trusted to handle money belonging to the people they care for must keep scrupulous records. A bulletin published by social care watchdog the Commission for Social Care Inspection shows that, while many services have improved the way they handle people’s money, there are examples of bad practice.

The Churches Child Protection Advisory Service (CCPAS) says it “was very pleased” to see the “timely” statement made by The Archbishop of Canterbury in which he expressed his “deep sorrow over the suffering experienced in child abuse cases involving the church”.

A sector lacking confidence, timid in its vision and ambition, poorly understood by the public, and widely considered to provide low-quality and unsafe services.

An influx of immigrants from violent countries is contributing to gang warfare, police have warned. Scotland Yard said that asylum seekers and other migrants who had witnessed violence in their home countries were having a “disproportionate negative impact” on other youngsters here.

Survivors of the July 7 bombings yesterday stepped up their campaign for an independent inquiry into claims that MI5 failed to prevent the attacks.

A teenager was found hanging by his shoelaces after he sent a letter saying that he would try to kill himself and this time succeed, an inquest heard yesterday.

British scientists are to launch the world’s first clinical trials of a controversial gene therapy to cure childhood blindness.

MPs are to debate growing concerns over failings in NHS maternity services. It comes ahead of a BBC Panorama programme which shows the pressure hospitals are under and claims wards are buckling under a midwife shortage.

A new report shows that up to 2.4 million people with diabetes are at risk of dying of cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as heart disease or stroke, if nothing is done to improve awareness, prevention and treatment.