Domestic violence and substance abuse in the family home are fuelling a rise in the number of children being put under social services protection, council chiefs are warning. The number
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A toddler who died after his mother fractured his skull had left council foster care and returned home a few months earlier, a family court judge has said. Judge Edward
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A judge has concluded that three girls were not systematically abused by members of a paedophile ring after an “unprecedentedly complex” High Court investigation. Sir Mark Hedley (pictured) had analysed
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A decision by a family court judge asked to consider the future of a little girl has been overturned after a lawyer complained about her “intemperate” behaviour at a private
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A judge has questioned a council plan for the care of a baby whose mother has learning disabilities and was at the centre of a court abortion battle. Mr Justice
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An anorexic teenager who wants to go home must stay in specialist accommodation, a Court of Protection judge has decided. The 17-year-old girl, who at one stage weighed 4st 6lb
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The fathers of three young children who have been missing with their mother for five days are “distraught” and want them home. Emma Davies, from Priorslee, Telford, and her three
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What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) is seeking participants for the extension of its Practice In Need of Evidence programme, examining multi-agency partnerships working to improve outcomes in children’s
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A toddler who was sharing an overcrowded home with two dogs must go into council care, a family court judge has decided. The house where the little boy, who is
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Police are searching for the natural parents of a seven-month-old child after they took it away from social services without consent. South Wales Police said the “looked-after” baby was taken
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