The Education Secretary has acknowledged parents are having to “fight to get the right support” for children with special educational needs, days after figures showed around two in three special
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Short staffing, underfunding and severe treatment delays have made mental health services for children and young people a “ticking time bomb”, the health regulator has warned. The Care Quality Commission
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The number of children living in poverty across the UK has hit a record high, with campaigners saying they are being failed and forgotten. There were an estimated 4.33 million
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A morbidly obese teenager with disabilities who died after being severely neglected by her parents did not have a care plan and her suffering was “avoidable”, a safeguarding report has
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A girl held in a young offenders’ institution was pinned down and forcibly stripped by a group of male prison guards, according to a watchdog. Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie
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Fifty-five children – mostly aged under one – have died in recent years where living in temporary accommodation has been recorded as a possible contributory factor, campaigners said. The figure,
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One in five adults did not act when concerned about a child being abused or neglected, according to a survey. The findings of the YouGov poll, conducted for the NSPCC,
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Emotional scars associated with growing up in care are passed down through generations, according to a UK-first study. Care leavers were at greater risk of depression and anxiety, and their
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There has been a dramatic rise in the number of children being referred for emergency mental health treatment. Data analysed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists shows a 53% rise
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Thousands of children are struggling without the support they need while parents “battle their way through a nightmare process” amid lengthy waits for autism assessments, a former children’s commissioner has
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