A senior judge is set to open the doors to a private family court in order enlist the public’s help finding a missing teenager, social services bosses say. Mr Justice
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Council workers have voted to go on strike in a dispute over pay. Members of the GMB union at Glasgow City Council backed walkouts by 72% and other forms of
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A shake-up of adoption rules has been unveiled to try and move more children more quickly from the care system into family life. The Children And Social Work Bill, unveiled
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Council bosses have been ordered to pay a teenager embroiled in family court proceedings £17,500 damages after a judge concluded that social services staff had failed to “properly assess” and
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A 16-year-old girl said to associate with criminals feared to be involved in sex trafficking should be placed into secure accommodation for her own protection, a family court judge has
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A woman has had three children taken from her care after a High Court judge concluded that she had planned to take them to an area of Syria controlled by
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Schools, hospitals and other public services left “devastated” by “ideological” Conservative cuts face a fresh squeeze on finances, Jeremy Corbyn has claimed. In the final hours of campaigning before the
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The wife of a man who was jailed for 20 years for sexually abusing children in a care home has avoided prison for looking up social care records of his
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The number of care home insolvencies increased by almost a fifth last year amid a fall in local authority funding, a new study has revealed. A total of 47 care
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New laws are needed to stop councils allowing people to slip into homelessness, Labour has insisted. The party’s shadow housing and planning secretary, John Healey, has backed calls by the
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