The number of Sure Start children’s centres closing has increased every year since 2010 with 156 shutting in 2015 alone, official statistics show. Figures released by the Department for Education
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Before the recent Autumn Statement, there was plenty of chatter about the government – at long last – putting more money into social care. The system has been starved of
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Companies that provide care to the elderly and disabled are increasingly handing back contracts to local authorities because they are not being paid enough, the leader of the health regulator
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A couple who have lost a High Court fight over the care of their granddaughter criticised council social services staff who were unable to find them when the youngster was
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Senior judges have raised concerns about a case in which a 71-year-old grandmother was given a six-month jail term after social services bosses complained she had breached orders made in
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The health, local government and parliamentary ombudsmans are to be merged to streamline the complaints system, the Government has said. The new public services ombudsman will champion improvements to the
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Government plans to boost innovation in children’s social care risk privatising services and taking away vulnerable children’s rights, MPs have warned. Senior Tory and Labour MPs have raised fears about
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A family court judge has ruled that the public cannot be told the name of a council criticised over the way social services staff handled a case in which a
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Social services bosses have failed to prove that a man with a history of domestic violence deliberately smothered his partner’s 13-month-old son – but a senior family court judge says
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Lawyers have returned to a specialist court for the latest round of a long-running case which a judge said had cost taxpayers an “astonishing” amount of money and generated an
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