Families with vulnerable youngsters will be given extra support before they reach crisis point under a sweeping shake-up of children’s social care. The plan, which follows criticism of the safeguarding
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The father of an obese teenager found dead at home has told a court he let his daughter down because he was lazy. Disabled 16-year-old Kaylea Titford (pictured) weighed 22
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The Princess of Wales has launched her “life’s work”, an ambitious campaign aimed at raising the profile of the early years development of children. Kate wants the project called Shaping
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Leading charities have called for an independent inquiry into how more than 200 asylum-seeking children have gone “missing” from Home Office hotels, describing the situation as “a child protection scandal”.
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Young people are being trafficked across the Channel to the UK and then “into cannabis farms or into prostitution”, Labour has suggested. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper (pictured) said there
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The Princess of Wales said she is “excited” about a new early years campaign she is launching as she met her team of advisers on the subject for the first
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A mother has described how her autistic daughter, who has epilepsy and significant learning disabilities, was grabbed by the wrist and dragged across the floor at a residential home which
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The Home Office is investigating reports that dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a hotel run by the department, a minister has said. Conservative frontbencher Lord
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Children in care are more worried about having a good education, getting on well with family and having a nice home than other children, a report suggests. Dame Rachel de
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A project helping Welsh mothers in prison stay in touch with their children has been given further funding. Visiting Mum is delivered by the Prison Advice & Care Trust (Pact)
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