A couple’s daughter suffered a “very serious” knife wound while they were involved in a “heated” row in their kitchen-diner, a High Court judge heard. Mrs Justice Lieven heard how
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A safeguarding review is set to begin following the death of 10-year-old Sara Sharif. Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) is due to look at the work of all agencies involved
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Further support from the Government to help children leaving care has been welcomed but charities said more help is needed earlier otherwise “thousands more” children will end up in care.
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A pioneering national children’s charity is to close after 81 years of campaigning, as it warned many other similar organisations were facing the same “mathematical impossibilities” of rising costs. Announcing
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The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was initially hampered by an unwillingness to acknowledge structural abuse, it has been told. Professor Kenneth Norrie (pictured), an expert in law from Strathclyde University,
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A coalition of more than 100 sexual abuse survivors, families and child safety experts have written to the heads of major tech platforms demanding they take urgent action to ensure
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Children experiencing homelessness are too often “invisible” and “overlooked”, an expert has said, as analysis showed stark differences in the picture across England when it comes to families in temporary
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A local authority says it has been “forced” into a position of failing to meet its duties to look after children in its care amid a “wholly inadequate” national system
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A 10-year-old girl who was found dead at her home was known to Surrey County Council, the local authority has said. Sara Sharif was found in Woking after police were
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A cross-party group of MPs and peers has urged the children’s minister to demand better data on the use of restraints on young people in care with an aim of
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