Vulnerable children in Kent may still be exposed to risks despite the efforts by social services chiefs to address serious failings in a damning Ofsted inspection.

Charities have cautiously welcomed the government line that the personalisation of services will be at the heart of its public service reforms, which are due to be announced next month.

More than 50,000 children under the age of 16 were held in police cells in 2008 and 2009 it has emerged.

Elderly care home residents in Britain are being denied “basic justice” as austerity cuts leave the system in “crisis”, Europe’s human rights chief has warned.

Prime minister attempts to make virtue of policy U-turns and revised timetable for change

THREE people from Cornwall with learning disabilities were allegedly abused at the Bristol care home at the centre of a new scandal, it has been revealed.

Abused children are being let down by the legal system, Barnardo’s has claimed, after revealing that only 89 convictions were brought for child exploitation in England and Wales in 2009.

SOCIAL workers “consistently failed” to protect a vulnerable 11-year-old schoolboy who went on to rape a disabled child, a report has found.

A group of men accused of being sexual predators, grooming vulnerable young girls for “horrific abuse” and sex parties, were arrested in morning raids yesterday.

SOCIAL services workers who were comprehensively criticised after a series of seven child deaths and a horrific child attack will today unveil a new service designed to stop such events happening again.