Latest analysis sets out how pioneering approach that places young people on remand into council accommodation rather than custody has delivered savings, got th ...

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) are being put at risk of trafficking and exploitation in unsuitable ...

Turnover among directors of children’s services (DCS) declined last year, pointing to growing stability in senior leadership ...

Evidence given by children's professionals in court proceedings involving a child can make a huge difference to the eventual ...

A committee of MPs has raised concerns about how families will challenge decisions under the government’s proposed special ...

Early years campaigners in Scotland and Wales have called on the devolved governments to urgently review funded childcare rates, warning that persistent funding ...

An award-winning project in a deprived part of the North West is helping families access early years support and better ...

The MP for Epsom has said the arrest of children as young as 11 in connection with recent protests in the Surrey town should ...

The rate of growth in income and profit levels among England’s largest children’s social care providers has slowed in the ...

In the third part of his series of articles on implementing the Best Start strategy, James Hempsall sets out how councils and ...