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The number of children in foster care rose by 3 per cent in the year to 31 March 2019. At that date there were almost

A rise in family conflict and hardship is behind the heightened pressure on child protection services, according to a new survey of councillors responsible for

The Children’s Commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have called for “the full, direct and urgent incorporation of the UN Convention on the

There has been a worrying shortfall in the recruitment of salaried members to the District Bench this year, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales,

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced new cross-government support available to young people leaving the care system, together with £19 million of investment into programmes benefiting care

Technical schools in England have received millions of pounds in public funding but many are half full and get poorer results than other secondary schools,

Police were called after a seven-year-old boy allegedly held a knife to a girl’s throat in the school dinner hall in an argument – over

Sir James Munby, the former president of the Family Division, expressed his ‘dismay and frustration’ that the Domestic Abuse Bill is one of 13 bills

Channel 4 News has covered the findings published by the National Audit Office that nearly half of all children permanently excluded from school have special