Handbook on local authority designated officer role still being worked upon, says children's minister Josh MacAlister

England’s foster carers are leaving the system. When a child is seriously injured in foster care, an investigation is triggered, but is the system stacked against carers when an allegation occurs?

Councillors vote for 3.99% council tax increase while mounting ‘attack on the vulnerable’, opposition says

Most social workers believe children's minister Josh MacAlister's goal of having an “excess” of foster carers won't work

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Hackney safeguarding chair will write to the education secretary to voice concerns over criticism of the review from DfE behaviour ambassador Tom Bennett

The move comes amid reports of issues with maintaining credit insurance just a month after the completion of a sale to private equity buyer Aurelius.

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The watchdog has warned of a "strong profit motive" as more homes spring up in areas where housing is cheapest.

The Competition and Markets Authority is taking the action following a review of online pricing and sales practices.

Star of BBC sitcom Motherland Anna Maxwell has signed an open letter to the Government saying SATs leave children with special educational needs and disabilities convinced they are 'not clever enough'

The Reform member branded the current Mobility scheme an ‘absolute scandal’

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Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

More than a thousand disabled children are waiting for wheelchairs and equipment that could transform their lives, Whizz Kidz say