Councils make it harder for families who rent – or who are not “a perfect ethnic match” – to adopt, leaving children being “bounced around the system” waiting for a
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The mother of a young sexual exploitation victim described how her daughter was “robbed of part of her childhood”. The woman told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)
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A man has won a family court fight over the care of two children after going on anger management courses. Council social workers raised concern about the man’s “physical chastisement”
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An urgent manhunt is under way after three young boys were abducted from a foster home in south London by their father, who was armed with a knife. Scotland Yard
Read MoreThe number of children needing foster care has risen by 44% during the coronavirus pandemic, creating a “state of emergency”, a children’s charity said. Meanwhile, the number of people looking
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A husband and wife who devoted their lives to caring for others and had 26 foster children have died within a fortnight of each other from Covid-19, their family said.
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The Only Way Is Essex star Lydia Bright has urged people in the UK to consider becoming foster parents. The reality star’s own parents fostered children when she was growing
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A woman who has fostered more than 250 children over five decades said the Duke of Cambridge was shocked to learn of how many children she has helped. Christine Lunn,
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A toddler who died after his mother fractured his skull had left council foster care and returned home a few months earlier, a family court judge has said. Judge Edward
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A judge has raised concern about a council’s handling of a case involving three children with links to Bermuda who have been in temporary foster care for more than 20
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