An eight-year-old boy has moved home after a family court judge was told he was picking up his mother’s “hateful feelings” about his father. Judge Lloyd North decided the youngster
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The Scottish Government should take steps to ensure children are prohibited from being locked in police cells, a Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP has said. MSPs have been debating legislation which
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A police force put a teenage girl “at greater risk” by letting a business forum know she was vulnerable to child sexual exploitation, a High Court judge has ruled. Details
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A 15-year-old boy who said he spent most of his time sleeping, playing computer games or watching horror films caused “genital injuries” to his seven-year-old sister, a High Court judge
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A High Court judge is to investigate after three sisters all aged under 10 developed a sexually transmitted infection. Abuse concerns emerged after the children’s parents had twice been evicted
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A woman with mental health difficulties has been praised by a family court judge after deciding to let her toddler daughter be adopted because she cannot meet the youngster’s needs.
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A woman given a nine-month prison term as a result of posting information relating to family court litigation on Facebook has been released from jail early after apologising. Sara Root,
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A quarter of children up for adoption in Scotland at the end of 2017 had to wait more than a year to be placed with families, according to the Care
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A new type of inspection has identified key strengths in the way children and young people in need of care and protection in Argyll and Bute are supported and cared
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A couple have been given the go-ahead to resume family life nine months after council social services bosses began family court litigation as a result of their baby son suffering
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