The deaths of hundreds of patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act may not have been investigated properly, it has emerged. All deaths of people detained under the Act, even
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Only three in 100 children in care in England receive the independent support they may legally be entitled to. If it is in their interests, every child in the country
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Children as young as five have been accused of carrying out sexual offences at school, new figures reveal. And victims as young as four have been targeted, according to an
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A controversial youth prison has been rated as inadequate by watchdogs as it emerged inmates were able to access pornography. Ofsted delivered a critical assessment of Medway Secure Training Centre
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Ministers have been accused of suppressing a critical evaluation of the Government’s Troubled Families initiative which cast doubt on the effectiveness of the programme. The initiative, launched in the wake
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The grandfather of murdered six-year-old Ellie Butler has told how his life savings were wiped out fighting for her custody while taxpayers picked up her killer father’s vast legal bill.
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The chairwoman who has quit the troubled inquiry into child sex abuse has been asked to explain herself to MPs. Dame Lowell Goddard is the third person to resign as
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Dame Lowell Goddard’s decision to quit as head of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse – 18 months after she took on the role – has been met with
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A judge has given guidance on how the behaviour of elderly people with dementia might be interpreted – in a bid to help relatives with welfare responsibilities. People whose freedom
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Dame Lowell Goddard has resigned as head of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse Dame Lowell, 67, a New Zealand high court judge, was appointed to lead the inquiry
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