A mother has described how her autistic daughter, who has epilepsy and significant learning disabilities, was grabbed by the wrist and dragged across the floor at a residential home which
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The Home Office is investigating reports that dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a hotel run by the department, a minister has said. Conservative frontbencher Lord
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Children in care are more worried about having a good education, getting on well with family and having a nice home than other children, a report suggests. Dame Rachel de
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A 16-year-old girl who died after becoming morbidly obese in lockdown and lived in conditions “unfit for any animal” was seriously neglected by her parents, a court has been told.
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A woman who published “bizarre” and untrue complaints about virtually all of the professionals involved in caring for her sick daughter has been warned she will be jailed if she
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The majority of health visitors are concerned that health and wellbeing “threats” faced by UK children will not be addressed if a problem was identified. Only 7% of health visitors
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Thousands of 16 to 20-year-olds are estranged from their parents or carers, leaving them vulnerable and struggling in poverty, a charity has said. There are around 150,000 young people in
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Parents who fail to pay child maintenance could face swifter punishments under plans backed by MPs. The Child Support (Enforcement) Bill received an unopposed second reading and work and pensions
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An orchestra scheme set up to help children in some of Scotland’s most underprivileged communities has had “positive outcomes”, new research has found. Sistema Scotland, which runs the Big Noise
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Two Ayrshire men who worked at a residential school for troubled children have been found guilty of abusing 28 pupils at the High Court in Glasgow. Matthew George, 73, and
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