A council has launched a legal challenge against the Home Secretary, arguing it is being put under “wholly disproportionate strain” by looking after hundreds of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Kent County
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Outsourcing children’s care placements to private providers is associated with worse outcomes for young people, a study has suggested. Local authorities that rely most on outsourcing to for-profit providers for
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Hundreds of children in care have been left “isolated” after being moved so far away from their home that they are in a different nation of the UK, Parliament heard.
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A 15-year-old girl who is in council care has given birth after a High Court judge ruled that doctors could perform a caesarean section against her will. Mr Justice Poole
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The Welsh Government has formally apologised for the heartbreak caused by forced adoptions during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Deputy social services minister Julie Morgan made the apology in the
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Efforts must be made to stop children being placed in care far from their local communities, a charity has urged after data suggested many are ending up miles away. Children
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A group of children who went missing from a hotel housing asylum seekers on the south coast are in a “vacuum”, the High Court has heard. Article 39, a charity
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An emotional Nicola Sturgeon has issued a “sincere, heartfelt and unreserved” apology to the thousands of women in Scotland who were forced to give up their babies for adoption. The
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Oscar nominee and Bafta winner Barry Keoghan has been hailed as inspirational by young people who have been through the care system. The star of The Banshees of Inisherin (pictured),
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Children’s social care providers are making “obscene profits”, while many looked after children are not receiving adequate care, a Labour frontbencher told Parliament. Baroness Chapman of Darlington (pictured) told peers
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