Information that emerged during the murder trial following the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka will feed into an ongoing serious case review. Daniel was abused at the hands of his

Some parents will try to manipulate social workers. Being alert to that fact will do more for at-risk children than hollow resignations, by Martin Narey I braced myself for the

Social work is easily criticised for being ‘risk averse’ and ‘risk anxious’, and yet we don’t seem to be any further down the road of being more risk sensible, write

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New draft guidance on identifying and preventing domestic violencei and abuse between family members or between people who are (or who have been) intimate partners is published by the UK’s

Judge says four-year-old suffered incomprehensible brutality from Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek A judge told a couple who murdered a four-year-old boy after inflicting months of cruelty and starvation on

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A mother and her partner have been found guilty of murdering her four-year-old child by beating and starving him over several months. Daniel Pelka died after “incomprehensible” cruelty at the