A second police force should take over the investigation into the death of toddler Poppi Worthington in an attempt to “salvage some prospect of justice”, ministers have been told. Former
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A “wholly inaccurate” assessment of Poppi Worthington led to a 10-month delay before care proceedings were issued over other children in the family, it can be reported. Cumbria County Council
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An investigation will be launched after a senior family court judge concluded that a bar worker who was not prosecuted had sexually abused his two stepchildren. Mr Justice Peter Jackson,
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A university-developed alert system, designed to assess the needs of people caring for terminally ill loved ones, has featured prominently in the recently published National Institute for Health Research Better
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The Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute, Liverpool (MCPCIL) has been awarded a £750,000 prestigious Programme Grant for research to enable the Institute to deliver a range of research and other projects to help
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A local authority has accepted a family judge’s criticism that it should have issued care proceedings involving the siblings of Poppi Worthington at an earlier stage. A 2014 fact-finding judgment
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Social workers should have acted sooner to protect two children whose mother had mental health difficulties, a family court judge has said. Judge Lesley Newton said the children – now
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A judge has ruled that a 68-year-old woman ”locked into the end stage” of multiple sclerosis should be allowed to die. The woman’s daughter had told how her mother was
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Child abuse victims will begin giving testimonies for the first time next week about their ordeal as part of the huge independent inquiry into alleged sexual abuse in Westminster and
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The Government has issued an Improvement Notice to Cumbria County Counicl over ongoing problems in its children’s services department. Following earlier ‘inadequate’ inspections, Ofsted have now said action must be
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