A baby girl who was strapped face down to a nursery bean bag died because she was put in a “very unsafe sleeping environment”, a court has heard. Kate Roughley,
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Around 85,000 new childcare places will be needed by September 2025 for the expansion of funded childcare for working parents in England, the Government has estimated. A pilot will start
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Placing vulnerable youngsters in illegal children’s homes is “unacceptable”, an education minister has told Parliament. Condemning the practice, Baroness Barran (pictured) pointed out that running unregulated properties is an offence
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Paedophiles convicted of serious sexual offences could lose parental rights over their children under a proposed law change. Under current rules, offenders may still have a right to be included
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One in every 52 children in Blackpool is in care compared with one in 140 across England, according to new analysis which researchers said exposes “deeply rooted social inequalities” in
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A nursery deputy manager caused the death of a baby girl who she placed face down, tightly swaddled and strapped to a bean bag for more than an hour and
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A new campaign is calling for a “united effort from every corner of society” to pull a million children out of relative poverty in the UK by 2030. Human rights
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The death of a transgender teenager who took his own life potentially because of his mental health and gender identity issues could have been contributed to by failures in his
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A defendant has admitted dumping soiled adult nappies at children’s nurseries and breaching a court order by being within 10 metres of a nursery. Abbi Taylor, who also appeared on
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Findings that children’s gender care in the NHS has been based on weak evidence have been branded “scandalous” by the shadow health secretary who told of his anger that adult
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