The prevalence of child sexual abuse in England has been vastly underestimated after a major new study suggested only one in eight victims come to the attention of authorities. Around
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Social workers should have acted sooner to protect two children whose mother had mental health difficulties, a family court judge has said. Judge Lesley Newton said the children – now
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Health experts have warned against cuts to public health funding and social care as George Osborne announced a £3.8 billion cash injection for the NHS. The funding boost – above
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Television camera crews have been granted access to one of the country’s busiest hospitals to highlight some of the tens of thousands of assaults committed against NHS staff each year.
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David Cameron has announced the UK’s first Dementia Research Institute is set to receive up to £150 million to drive forward research and innovation in fighting dementia. Led by the
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More young people are living in poverty than those aged over 65 as a lack of well-paid jobs and affordable homes is making it harder to build a secure future,
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Councils are starting to freeze non-essential services as they reach a “tipping point” ahead of an expected fresh round of deep spending cuts, new research has revealed. Hundreds of thousands
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Social services staff asked to make decisions about the future of five children were involved in an attempted “cover-up”, a family court judge has said. Judge Mark Horton said there
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Health and social services staff should have intervened earlier in the case of a depressed mother who smothered her three disabled children, but the large number of workers involved were
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The husband of Tania Clarence, who smothered her three disabled children, has questioned a review of the case, saying it highlighted “only some of the conflicts and complexities my wife
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