Cafcass has this week launched Parenting Plan and Family Meetings, a free support service for parents in Durham, Teesside and North Yorkshire. Parents from these areas who are having difficulties
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This guideline covers the period before, during and after a young person moves from children’s to adults’ services. It aims to help young people and their carers have a better
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Three senior judges who specialise in family law have told how a lower-ranking judge’s plans to allow “live” reporting of a high-profile private family court hearing relating to the death
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The Duchess of Cambridge has taken part in a sing-a-long on a visit to an Edinburgh school. Kate joined hundreds of pupils at St Catherine’s Primary for a special assembly
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A High Court judge has called for a new “review mechanism” to be set up for individuals whose job prospects and lives are blighted after being labelled sexual offenders as
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Two children born in England after their parents were trafficked from Slovakia should be placed for adoption in England, a High Court judge has decided. Mr Justice Baker said it
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A consultation seeking views on a new definition of child sexual exploitation has been launched by the Government. There are currently a number of definitions of child sexual exploitation in
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Two retired social workers responsible for a sadistic “regime of terror” at a children’s home during the 1980s have been handed lengthy jail terms. Alan Todd – who sexually abused
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More needs to be done to improve education for children who are not in mainstream schools, inspectors have warned. Youngsters who attend “alternative” education settings full-time sometimes study a very
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David Cameron’s mother has signed a petition against spending cuts in his constituency. Retired magistrate Mary Cameron, 81, has put her name to a battle to save dozens of children’s
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