The children’s commissioner said local authorities should act as “pushy parents” for children in care – and even take children to school in areas of gang activity – in a
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A High Court judge has described a shortage of suitable accommodation for “very troubled children” as “scandalous”. Mr Justice Holman, who is based in the Family Division of the High
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A former pupil who was physically restrained and abused by a teacher has told an inquiry the trauma he suffered left him fearing for his life and that it will
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A troubled boy’s placement in a children’s home is costing nearly £500,000 a year, a family court judge has said. The boy had been taken from the care of his
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The number of children in care in England could reach almost 100,000 by 2025, the County Councils Network has warned. The County Councils Network (CCN) has warned that unless there
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The recent ban on placing vulnerable children in unregulated care settings is acting as a “pressure cooker” amid a serious lack of alternatives, a social services boss has warned. Charlotte
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Children at a Catholic boarding school in Scotland were sexually abused and subjected to sadistic treatment that “destroyed childhoods”, an inquiry has found. Lady Smith, chair of the Scottish Child
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A victim of a monk who was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of sexually abusing boys over two decades has said the sentence “couldn’t ever be long
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For three weeks last autumn, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse heard disturbing evidence from Lord Janner’s alleged victims about their ordeals. The alleged abuse was largely meted out
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Children who reported being sexually abused by the late Labour grandee Lord Janner were “let down by institutional failings”, a damning inquiry into police, prosecution and social services responses to
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