The chief executive of Britain’s biggest local authority is to leave his post as the council grapples with a multi-million pound budget black hole. Mark Rogers is stepping down from
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Town halls will be forced to carry on making deep cuts to services despite imposing inflation-busting tax rises, councils have warned. Local authorities are being pushed “perilously close to the
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NHS hospitals will not be able to balance their books until problems in social care are addressed, health experts have warned. The Health Foundation said the gap in social care
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Caps on spending on agency staff in the NHS in England have been “largely unsuccessful” in luring temporary staff to work in the health service, a new report has found.
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Two children whose destitute illegal immigrant parents were accused of using them as “puppets” in a fight to get state cash should be placed for adoption in Britain, a judge
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A new national database of missing people is to be rolled out as part of a drive to tackle child sexual exploitation. The facility will allow police to access data
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There is a “possibility” that cuts to health and social care could be linked to tens of thousands of “excess deaths”, a new research paper suggests. In 2015 there was
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Around one in three parents do not know if their child is being taught by a qualified early years teacher, according to a poll. The majority of mothers and fathers
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Child protection experts are receiving a report about possible female genital mutilation every day, new figures reveal. An NSPCC helpline logged 1,564 contacts about girls who may have suffered or
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The UK’s four children’s commissioners have written to the Government to tell of their “deep concern” at the decision to end a scheme to bring lone child refugees to Britain.
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