School nurseries appear to have been “colonised by the middle classes” the education watchdog chief has said. Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has asked why so many parents have
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Vulnerable children should be allowed to stay in care until they are 25, the children’s commissioner for England has said. Nearly a third of young people who had to leave
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Action for Children in partnership with the Who Cares? Trust has launched a new website to provide children’s homes in England with access to support and information to help them
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The former Chief Executive of CHILDREN 1ST, Anne Houston OBE will receive an Honorary Doctorate from University of the West of Scotland (UWS) at its graduation ceremony today, at Thomas
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Nearly £2 billion was cut from funding to help vulnerable children keep their lives on track in the last five years, according to leading charities. Drug and alcohol support along
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A Survation poll commissioned by the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) reveals that 91% of the UK adult population don’t know what private fostering is. BAAF and ECPAT
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Mental Health Minister, Jamie Hepburn, has visited a new £8 million unit for child and adolescent mental health in Dundee on Friday. The Young People’s Unit provides a 12 bed
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The Government has committed £30 million to finding adoptive parents for children in care. Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne want to speed up the process of finding
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Two new services designed to cut the number of children being removed into care, do work – saving money and transforming lives. This is the conclusion of an interdisciplinary team
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Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a new Child Protection Taskforce to ‘drive forward fundamental reforms to protect the most vulnerable children in our society and give them the opportunity
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