The proposal is earmarked for approval despite opposition from residents and the town council

Exclusive: Average of nearly five sexual crimes a day against under-13s were reported to police between 2021 and 2025

Exclusive: Rachel* had spent nearly two decades living under the shadow of an indefinite jail term when she became a mother to Joshua* and turned her life around, but their world was torn apart by a s...

Meet Diane - the foster carer who has supported young people for the past 16 years

‘We have focused on empowering everyone working with children’

Councillor asks what happens if government won't cover Island's high needs deficit

How local authorities should support children who are cared for by extended family, friends or connected persons and their families.

Children were left at risk of harm and received inconsistent care at a Somerset home rated inadequate in its first inspection, Ofsted has said

Hartlepool Borough Council is warning that the rising number of children entering the care system in Hartlepool is creating unprecedented financial challenges for the authority.

Poor pay among the reasons behind children's services rating of inadequate at council where neighbours pay thousands more

Southport MP Patrick Hurley made the claim

ADCS says Ofsted plan to penalise councils for using unregistered homes would hold authorities to unattainable standard

Pep Guardiola has thrown his support behind Manchester City after the club were found guilty of all charges of breaching Premier League financial rules over a nine-year period

Scotland’s care reforms have yet to deliver consistent improvements in the lives of children, families and care-experienced adults, despite progress on legis...

Scheme will follow principles of Sure Start, helping families with infant feeding, mental health and bonding with babies

Councils collectively spent record 71.9% of core spending on adult and children’s care last year, analysis shows

It comes three years after the children's services were rated as "inadequate" by watchdog Ofsted.

The soaring cost of care and a shortage of registered homes means dozens of vulnerable Devon children and young people are being placed in…

A scheme is launched to help Bradford carers extend their homes to support more children.

The theory of parental alienation is a ‘harmful pseudo-science’, according to recent official guidance in England and Wales. Yet it led to Sarah’s two daughters being taken away six years ago – and ne...

From making life hell for a young teacher to doubting the motives of a caring foster mother, Olivia Petter, Derek Owusu, Annie Lord and other writers repent for past bad behaviour

The council rejected her application based on information it knew at the outset before she was even invited to apply

Alan Milburn is preparing to implement his report to bring young people back into work. Let’s hope the government will see it through, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

Peterborough City Council is drawing up plans to set up and run its own children’s care home in the city.

Agency decision makers reversed 1,010 decisions to place children for adoption in 2025-26, up 17% on the year before

Northants councils are facing huge financial pressures as the cost of residential placements are rising year on year

Proposed changes to foster care panels could narrow the pool of experienced members and risk undermining chair independence, the Association of Directors of...

Doctors running a dedicated NHS clinic for children with ketamine bladder say they are seeing patients as young as 13.

The areas where the council is spending too much include children's services and adult social care.

Swansea Council's annual report shows fostering households down from 139 to 117 in five years, residential placements up from 29 to 58, and a council tax offer for carers.

Feeling unsafe is “inevitable” for some children in youth custody, inspectors have found, amid high levels of violence, long periods locked in cells and poor...

Cumberland Council is hoping to open three new children's homes by next September, councillors have heard.

Women escaping abusive partners abroad could get new protections from legal analysis of Hague convention

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Peter Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.

The reforms to Parenting Orders could also see parents losing benefits, Jake Richards MP told the Times.

‘Hospital admissions’ of children in care are among serious concerns over the management of a home which was only registered in March. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Council has ser…

The peer and head of the social care commission also called for foreign firms to be banned from owning British care homes

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