People looking after vulnerable children have to battle for support and the child welfare system is failing in its duty to nurture their loving relationships, a committee was told. Josh
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Kent County Council has warned it has “reached the limit” for the number of unaccompanied child migrants it can look after for the second time in a year. Council leader
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Kent County Council is threatening the Home Secretary with legal action as it warns its services for unaccompanied child migrants are at breaking point for the second time in less
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Vulnerable children in Scotland may have been detained unlawfully in secure accommodation, an investigation by the Scottish Children and Young People’s Commissioner has found. The commissioner’s investigation concluded that councils
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An NHS trust’s mental health service has been criticised for failing to have a plan to deal with children in crisis following the inquest into the death of a troubled
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The number of children and young people waiting a year or more for specialist mental health treatment has almost trebled since coronavirus hit – with new figures showing more than
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The majority of school leaders polled by a headteachers’ union said they had raised safeguarding concerns about pupils during the pandemic, a select committee was told. Tim Bowen, president of
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Children and young people are being “ping ponged” around different services when they seek mental health support, MPs have heard. Samaritans said that children and young people are not getting
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Seven “sexual predators” have gone on trial accused of exploiting and abusing a “vulnerable” teenage girl. The men face a total of 17 charges in connection with the sexual exploitation
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Nearly one quarter of child and adolescent admissions to psychiatric hospitals are involuntary, a new study suggests. Researchers also found young black people were almost three times as likely as
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