Doctors, nurses and teachers could face criminal charges for failing to report forced marriage cases under plans being considered by the Government. Ministers are weighing up the possibility of introducing
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Council social services bosses have come under fire from a family court judge after a little boy was placed with foster carers when grandparents who might have offered a home
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The parents of a dying baby suffered a “horrifically stressful” experience after social services failings deprived them of time with their child, an ombudsman has said. City of York Council
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Social Work now has a new champion, albeit in the unlikely guise of the new industry regulator. As part of the 2017 Children’s and Social Work Act, the Government introduced
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A social worker bought a homeless 17-year-old boy a tent to live in, a watchdog has found. Cornwall Council even provided the “vulnerable” teenager with a replacement tent after the
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The Northern Ireland Social Care Council in partnership with Ulster University, Queen’s University Belfast and the Departments of Health and Education, developed a series of Understanding Child Development Apps. Social
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Northern Ireland’s Chief Social Worker Sean Holland has called on all social workers to become poverty aware and to become anti-poverty practitioners. Speaking on International Day for the Eradication of
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A man handed a three-and-a-half-year jail term after attacking his partner should be given no information about their two daughters unless one of them dies, a High Court judge has
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A family court judge has told of her frustration and outrage after hearing that a place in a specialist secure unit cannot be found for a 16-year-old boy who is
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A family court judge has complained about a council’s “mismanagement” of a case centred on the care of a six-year-old girl. Recorder Carly Henley has published a written ruling in
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