A review of efforts to safeguard Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has said it is difficult to understand why police did not step in after being sent a photograph of bruising suggesting he
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A nursery nurse has denied she “persecuted” a baby girl whom she allegedly unlawfully killed by ill-treatment. Kate Roughley, 37, found nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan unresponsive and blue while she was
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Most of the unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who went missing on the Government’s watch, and are still missing, are now 18, a Home Office minister has said. Lord Sharpe of Epsom
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The Government’s investment in new schools for children with special needs could be “too little too late”, a school leaders’ union has warned. The Department for Education (DfE) has announced
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A support programme for babies and their families in England must have a guaranteed minimum level of long-term funding, a watchdogs’ review has said. The Start for Life programme offers
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A nursery nurse accused of causing the death of a baby girl by ill-treatment has told a jury she was told that infants did not need to be placed to
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The number of children living in temporary accommodation has reached another record high, while people needing help for homelessness due to no-fault evictions has also reached a new peak. A
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A teenage schoolgirl has been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing at a school in Wales. Pupils at Amman Valley School (pictured), also known as Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, in
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Girls in the UK are drinking, smoking and vaping more than boys, while England is “top of the charts” globally for child alcohol use, a major report has found. In
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A nursery where a baby girl was found unresponsive after she was strapped face down to a bean bag for more than 90 minutes was “badly ran”, a former staff
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