Parents who try to turn their children against an ex-partner or spouse following a break-up should be punished in the courts, ministers have been told. Simon Danczuk urged the Government
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A family court judge has warned of the damage drugs can do after ruling that four children whose mother was an addict by the time she turned 20 must go
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A residential child care worker has been found unfit to practise and removed from the Social Care Register after a Care Council for Wales Fitness to Practise hearing found she’d
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The Scottish Parliament will next week be invited to nominate Bruce Adamson to Her Majesty the Queen for appointment as the new Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland.
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A High Court judge has asked a council boss for an explanation after complaining of “lackadaisical” efforts by social workers. Mr Justice MacDonald said social services staff at Cheshire East
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Social workers moved a vulnerable Essex teenager from her aunt and uncle’s care without any warning, the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has said. The teenager had been living with her
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Former children’s commissioner for England Sir Al Aynsley-Green has accused the Government of having “short-term, inconsistent and untrustworthy” policies that are letting down young people across the country. Professor Aynsley-Green
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A man who was accused of sexual abuse and prevented from seeing his children for two years has been compensated by a council following family court litigation. The man complained
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Syrian children are showing symptoms of “toxic stress” and are attempting self-harm and suicide in response to prolonged exposure to war, according to a report. Children do not feel safe
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The Child Protection Improvement Programme was established in February 2016. There are nine interconnected work strands which are helping to deliver our child protection system vision (the Child Protection Systems
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