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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A High Court judge has raised concern about a shortage of suitable placements for vulnerable children after being told how a 12-year-old girl with severe learning difficulties had been “marooned”
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Families with vulnerable youngsters will be given extra support before they reach crisis point under a sweeping shake-up of children’s social care. The plan, which follows criticism of the safeguarding
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A mother has described how her autistic daughter, who has epilepsy and significant learning disabilities, was grabbed by the wrist and dragged across the floor at a residential home which
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Children in care are more worried about having a good education, getting on well with family and having a nice home than other children, a report suggests. Dame Rachel de
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Just 40 of the 400 children referred to Barnardo’s fostering service in Glasgow and Edinburgh have been placed with families in the last year, the charity has revealed. The number
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