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Engage: Why victims of domestic abuse don’t leave – four experts explain

By Cassandra Wiener, Alison Gregory, Michaela Rogers and Sandra Walklate16th February 2022Engage

For anyone aware of someone – a friend, a colleague, a family member – experiencing abuse and violence at home, one of the biggest questions is often why don’t they

NSPCC urge changes to Health and Care Bill warning child safeguarding could be destabilised

By Jemma Crew, Reporter10th February 2022News England

Children may be less safe under proposed changes to NHS structures which could destabilise safeguarding partnerships that “already need urgent improvement”, a charity has warned. The NSPCC said it is

Engage: Social care – how Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children face discrimination across Europe and the UK

By Joanna Kostka, Lancaster University27th January 2022Engage

Throughout Europe – from Italy to Hungary – Romani children are overrepresented in institutional care. This is particularly acute in eastern Europe. As many as four in five children in

Bradford Council stripped of children’s social care services in wake of Star Hobson case

By Catherine Lough, Reporter25th January 202225th January 2022News England

The council overseeing the region where 16-month-old Star Hobson was murdered has had its children’s social services removed from its control.On Tuesday, the Government announced that Bradford Council’s children’s social

Review into agencies’ involvement with murdered toddler Star Hobson delayed

By Dave Higgens, Reporter24th January 2022News England

The publication of an investigation into the contact agencies had with 16-month-old Star Hobson before she was murdered by her mother’s girlfriend has been delayed. A Local Child Safeguarding Practice

Social care system for teenagers ‘infuriatingly inadequate’, says former children’s commissioner

By Catherine Lough, Reporter29th December 2021News England

The social care system is not fit for purpose and is “handing some children over” to criminal gangs, a report has found. The report from the Commission on Young Lives

Charity warns nearly 16,000 children to be exposed to domestic abuse over Christmas

By Alana Calvert, Reporter23rd December 2021News England

Nearly 16,000 children will be victims of domestic abuse over the Christmas fortnight alone, according to charity Early Intervention Foundation (EIF). The not-for-profit, which advocates for effective early intervention to

Dad of murdered Star Hobson ‘devastated and will never recover from losing precious daughter’

By Dave Higgens, Reporter17th December 2021News England

The father of murdered toddler Star Hobson has said he will never recover from the “callous and cruel way” in which his “precious daughter” was taken from him. Jordan Hobson

Eight-year sentence for murdered toddler’s mother ‘doesn’t sound enough’ says care minister

By Geraldine Scott and Dave Higgens, Reporters16th December 2021News England

The Attorney General could order a review of the sentence handed to the mother of Star Hobson, a health minister suggested, as she said the eight-year term for allowing the

Woman branded ‘pure evil’ for murder of toddler Star Hobson to serve minimum 25 years in prison

By Dave Higgens, Reporter15th December 202115th December 2021News England

The woman who murdered 16-month-old Star Hobson must serve a minimum of 25 years in prison, according to a judge who said the toddler’s short life was “marked by neglect,

Mother’s anger after coroner finds Army failures contributed to Jaysley’s death

Thirty councils in severe financial distress granted support to protect services

More than half of councils face insolvency over special needs spending – survey

Man with Down’s syndrome died after care worker ‘landed on him’ in swimming pool