The Government wants to provide children and young people with the best start in life and break cycles of deprivation for good. The Government’s ambitious pledge in 1999 to end

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The issue of children living with domestic violence is now recognised as a matter for concern in its own right by both government and key children’s services agencies. The link

The purpose of this report is to help further the Government’s vision of equality for disabled people by 2025 as set out in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit Report Improving

This report sets out progress made in tackling the over-representation of young black people in the criminal justice system.

This Statistical First Release (SFR) provides information about children looked after in England for the year ending 31 March 2008. The figures are based on returns collected from all 150