The Duchess of Cambridge has voiced her belief that the nation’s children should be “supported through difficult times in their lives” in a video message recorded to mark Children’s Mental
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There are serious failings in the accessibility and accuracy of short break statements among local authorities in England, according to new research by Cardiff University. A survey carried out by
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MPs have called for a “radical change” in charity regulation to prevent a repeat of the “extraordinary catalogue of failures of governance and control” across the board that led to
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An eight year old was among more than 22,000 children held overnight in police cells last year, according to new figures. Another one of the 22,792 under-18s was held for
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When family difficulties mean that children are at risk of abuse or neglect and face being taken into care or becoming candidates for adoption, how can their fathers be brought
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Vulnerable British children are being placed in care outside their home county due to the influx of child asylum seekers from across the English Channel. Council chiefs in Kent said
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A boy who died of scurvy was “invisible” to the authorities despite concerns being raised about his welfare, according to a leaked official report. Eight-year-old Dylan Seabridge, who was home-educated,
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Staff at a charity are to be balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. Unite and Unison said their members at Action For Children will vote in the
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Children were made to perform “sexual activities” with each other – and animals – at a hotel, a family court judge has concluded. Social workers with responsibility for child welfare
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An investigation will be launched after a senior family court judge concluded that a bar worker who was not prosecuted had sexually abused his two stepchildren. Mr Justice Peter Jackson,
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