Social workers working in children’s services in NI have a vital role in supporting families and protecting children from harm. This was the message from NI’s Chief Social Worker Sean
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A heterosexual couple fighting for the right to have a civil partnership have won a ruling at the UK’s highest court that they are being discriminated against. Five Supreme Court
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A mother is suing holiday company Thomas Cook after claiming her daughter was abducted from a hotel kids club in Turkey. Janet Alexander took her two daughters Rose and Lois
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An inquest has been opened and adjourned into the death of a four-year-old girl allegedly murdered by her mother. Amelia Brooke Harris died at her home on Brithweunydd Road in
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The Welsh Government has unveiled new guidance for regulated childcare settings to help them ensure they provide the children they care for with healthy food and drink. The new guidance
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A senior nun has apologised “unreservedly” to those who told an inquiry they were abused at children’s homes run by a religious order. Sister Anna Maria Doolan said she had
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A steep drop in the number of childminders working in England has been branded “simply unacceptable” by campaigners who have called on the Government to take action to halt the
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A retired archbishop has told an inquiry he is “deeply ashamed” following allegations of abuses at children’s homes run by nuns. Archbishop Mario Conti said he had been “blindly satisfied”
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A baby whose father lives in a “complicated” relationship with two women should be placed for adoption, a family court judge has decided. The man was living with the little
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More children are being forced to commit crimes including carrying weapons and selling drugs, a leading charity has warned. Barnardo’s surveyed its children’s service managers across the country and found
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