Young people could be left at risk of online exploitation as families struggle to afford activities this summer, a children’s charity has warned. Barnardo’s said its polling suggested some parents
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Outsourcing children’s care placements to private providers is associated with worse outcomes for young people, a study has suggested. Local authorities that rely most on outsourcing to for-profit providers for
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A mother and father who murdered their “perfect” baby son on Christmas Day have been jailed for life and will serve respective minimum terms of 27 and 29 years. Shannon
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A children’s agency which was involved in the decision to hand Finley Boden back to his parents weeks before they murdered him has said that “everyone involved” thought the pair
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Ten-month-old Finley Boden was placed back in his drug-taking parents’ care just months before they murdered him after a Family Court was told they did not pose an unmanageable risk,
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The MP for Chesterfield said the death of a 10-month-old boy in his constituency was “shocking” but “unsurprising” due to “failures across the system” in social services and the courts.
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Hundreds of children in care have been left “isolated” after being moved so far away from their home that they are in a different nation of the UK, Parliament heard.
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A mother and father jailed for leaving their morbidly obese daughter to die in bed-ridden squalor have had their sentences increased to eight years and 10 years respectively at the
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Children and young people who have suffered sexual or domestic abuse risk not getting the help they need due to a gap in support from local authorities, a charity has
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Safeguarding concerns about pupils have risen since the pandemic, the vast majority of teachers surveyed for new research have said. The increases mainly covered neglect and emotional abuse, according to
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