Press now allowed to report from family courts
27th January 2025
Journalists can now report from family courts in England and Wales in what the UK’s most senior family judge has called a “watershed” change. From
Journalists can now report from family courts in England and Wales in what the UK’s most senior family judge has called a “watershed” change. From
On Wednesday 15 January 2025, voluntary adoption agencies across the UK will be opening their doors simultaneously to mark Big Adoption Day. Read more on
Surrogacy reform has moved a step closer with the news that the government met the Law Commission last month to discuss recommendations which had appeared to
On 12 December 2024 the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel published its ‘Independent annual report for serious child safeguarding incidents, 2023 to 2024’. Read the
A register to identify children who are not in school in England will be part of a bill introduced to Parliament on Tuesday. Read the
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Hundreds of schools in England are still at risk of collapse from crumbling concrete, according to previously unpublished figures. Official data, which the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
A third of children in council care in 2023 lived over 20 miles away from their local area, school and family – around 4,600 people in total.
Councils’ available spending to grow by an estimated 3.2% in real terms in 2025-26, with authorities also given £250m to test new approaches in children’s
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