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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A woman has lost a fight over the care of her 12-year-old son after a High Court judge concluded that she had alienated the youngster from his father. The boy,
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Age verification measures designed to prevent children from accessing pornography online have been dropped, the Government has announced. Under the scrapped plans, people would have to prove their age in
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Routine safety checks on the dangers offenders could pose to children, their partners and the public are not being carried out as probation officers buckle under the pressure of overwhelming
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A NHS Forth Valley nurse who failed to report an allegation a vulnerable three-year-old girl was being sexually abused has been struck off. A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness
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A judge has raised concern about a council’s handling of a case involving three children with links to Bermuda who have been in temporary foster care for more than 20
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Scotland’s ban on smacking has been passed on what has been hailed as a “momentous day for children’s rights”. Children’s campaigners were amongst those who welcomed the passage of the
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A police force has been told to take “immediate action” on how it deals with children in custody after one was held for eight hours without review, a report found.
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Hundreds of children in care are being “marched back” to visit their abusive parents and a majority of foster families want to see the practice made illegal, research suggests. More
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