A senior judge has said there is a “highly defensive atmosphere” in social services about “future disasters” meaning that social workers are under increased pressure to intervene into the lives
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Separated parents will be hit by fees if they cannot reach an amicable agreement over child support under a new system that comes into force today. Mothers and fathers who
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Thousands of the country’s most disadvantaged children, young people and families will benefit from £15 million of new funding over the next year, the Scottish Government has announced. It will
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A charity has had to suspend the awarding of grants to low-income families in Wales as it waits for delayed funding from the Welsh government. The Family Fund, which relies
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More than a million families are struggling with “problem” debt with nearly three million extra households containing dependent children on the brink of sliding into financial difficulties, according to a
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A charity that helps Welsh families with young children says almost half the parents referred to it have “serious hidden problems”. New data from Home-Start reveals almost half (49%) of
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The number of problem families “turned around” by a Government scheme has almost doubled in the last six months, as the Government sought to counter warnings the programme was set
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The new Family Court in England and Wales comes into force today as part of a major shake-up for the family justice system. A single Family Court for England and
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Child sexual abuse is a not a subject that most people choose to dwell on for very long, however, the reality is that we are living in a world where
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A “baffling” failure of Whitehall co-ordination means fewer than expected troubled families have been helped by Government schemes, a spending watchdog has said. The Commons public accounts committee cited the
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