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
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The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in vulnerable primary school children. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) updated its advice after the UK’s Medicines and
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A disabled 16-month-old toddler who had just learned to stand up drowned in a water trough when he was left unsupervised in the garden of his foster family’s home, an
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Migrants are still being held in “very poor” conditions after arriving on the Kent coast despite Home Office assurances of “significant improvements”, according to inspectors. Women who said they had
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A coroner has expressed concern over the availability of information about suicide on the internet after a 15-year-old boy took his own life on his last day at school. Archie
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Almost 2,000 youngsters have been left waiting over a year for specialist help with mental health problems – with the total having doubled in a year, figures show. At the
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The Government has announced a major review into the circumstances which led to the murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. It aims to determine what improvements are needed by the agencies
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Boris Johnson has urged France to step up efforts to stem the flow of migrants crossing the Channel after a boat capsized off the French coast with the loss of
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Council leaders in Scotland are seeking “urgent” talks with Home Secretary Priti Patel on what they can do to help accommodate asylum seekers. Kelly Parry, community wellbeing spokeswoman for the
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The Home Office is to write to councils urging them to take migrant children who have arrived in the UK without any parents or guardians. A voluntary scheme is now
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