Children’s services are at a “tipping point”, with record numbers of youngsters now in care, town hall bosses have warned. The equivalent of 90 youngsters a day are entering the
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Almost 30,000 reports of children sexually assaulting other youngsters, including 2,625 alleged attacks on school premises, have been made to police in the last four years, figures reveal. The data
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A family court judge has decided not to name a council she criticised over its handling of a case involving a baby girl now placed for adoption. Recorder Carly Henley
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A woman with a “very significant learning disability” has lost the latest round of a fight over the care of her two children. Two Court of Appeal judges have backed
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A man attempted suicide after losing a court fight over the care of his daughter following the death of his estranged partner, a judge has been told. Two Court of
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The number of lone asylum-seeking children in the care of councils in England has more than doubled in three years. Official statistics show local authorities were looking after 4,560 unaccompanied
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Anti-grooming materials that aim to help prevent children and young people from being targeted by paedophiles online are being launched at Swansea University today. ?Swansea University researchers studying the language
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The murder of a teenage girl by a fellow care home resident fascinated by necrophilia could have been prevented, an inquiry has found. Melissa Mathieson, 18, was strangled by Jason
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The Bristol Safeguarding Adults Board has today (28 Sept) published a Serious Case Review in the case of Melissa Mathieson, an 18 year old woman who was murdered in 2014
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Around 1.2 million children who have suffered abuse are being let down by mental health services, according to a new report. The study from the National Society for the Prevention
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