The Department for Education CIN census 2017 to 2018 covers all children who are referred to children’s social care services even if no further action is taken. This includes children
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A campaigner has called for a county council whose social services bosses asked for a 71-year-old grandmother to be jailed after complaining that she had not complied with judges’ orders
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A High Court judge has criticised local authority social services bosses over their handling of a case involving a two-year-girl who may be taken from the care of her mother.
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The Welsh Government has raised the capital limit used by local authorities who charge for residential care from £24,000 to £50,000 as part of its new five-year plan entitled Taking
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More than 40,000 violent assaults against public service workers in Scotland have been recorded in the past decade, according to a survey. Unison’s annual Violence at Work Survey 2016 launched
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Homeless people are being told by councils to sleep rough so they can get help, research by a charity has found. People who turned to their local authority for help
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A couple have begun the latest stage of a legal fight to regain care of their child after being cleared of abuse at a criminal trial. The man and woman
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Almost seven in every 10 calls to the NSPCC’s helpline over the last year were serious enough to be referred to the police and councils amid rising reports of neglect
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A couple who failed to prevent their grandchildren being placed for adoption were threatened with jail after information relating to the youngsters appeared on Facebook. Social services bosses at Central
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The quality of help and protection offered to at-risk children across England is “unsatisfactory and inconsistent”, a report has found. The chair of an influential House of Commons committee said
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