Jeremy Hunt has branded as “totally unacceptable” reports that head teachers have had to prove children had attempted suicide before they could be treated by mental health services. The Health
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Up to £26 million is to be pumped into supporting breakfast clubs across England, the Government has announced. More than 1,770 state schools will benefit from the cash, according to
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A psychologist asked to provide an expert assessment of the father of a toddler at the centre of family court litigation wrote to a judge to apologise for giving “very
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A nine-year-old boy said to have suffered repeated flea bites because his home was infested must be taken from his parents’ care, a family court judge has ruled. Council social
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A sexual offences liaison officer who found a rape victim in his care “attractive” has been jailed after he hacked into her Facebook account and downloaded pictures of her as
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The councillor behind a campaign about the dangers of young women drinking has hit back at claims it is “thunderingly offensive” and that it takes Britain back 60 years. Sunderland
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The foster parents of the Parsons Green Tube bomber say they feel “betrayed” by his actions – and claim they were never warned that he had admitted being “trained to
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A High Court judge has condemned a council as a result of “dreadful failures” in the handling of children in its care. Mr Justice Keehan said he had decided to
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Ministers have been urged to allow child refugees to sponsor their close families members to join them in the UK. The SNP’s Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) wants
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Ministers have announced a review of school exclusions, amid concerns that some youngsters are more likely to be taken out of classrooms than others. Education Secretary Damian Hinds argued that
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