Social care agencies “missed opportunities” to help an aspiring teenage model who went on to take her own life. Coroner Katy Skerrett said there was a lack of communication by
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Extra funding for mental health services will not be enough to ensure all children with mental health problems are helped, the head of the NHS in England has suggested. Simon
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Separated parents have been forced to hand over millions of pounds to the Government after it introduced charges for its child support service, new official figures show. The Department for
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The University of Stirling’s new Centre for Child Wellbeing and Protection and leading children’s charity Aberlour have signed a collaboration agreement. Building on a strong existing partnership they have committed to
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An inspection of services for children and young people in Falkirk has identified areas of good performance but also made recommendations for improvement. The inspection was led by the Care
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The Government has been accused of treating Parliament with contempt over the lack of detail in proposals aimed at improving children’s social care services across England. Labour said a large
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Plans to offer pre-schoolers 30 free hours of childcare a week may be in jeopardy if not enough childminders and nurseries are willing to offer places, MPs have warned. Under
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Welcome to the first blog of Revisiting Child protection in Scotland. The project emerges out of academic research – out of the findings from a UK-wide study of how social
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The father of Poppi Worthington is an ex-partner of a woman who was suspected of grooming the toddler’s mother when she was a teenager, a serious case review has revealed.
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A public figure whose teenage relative was taken into local authority care while on holiday in England before becoming the focus of family court proceedings cannot be named, a judge
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