Children in youth custody will benefit from strengthened safeguarding arrangements under a package of reforms announced by ...

Refuge has reported a significant increase in referrals involving technology-facilitated and economic abuse, with frontline ...

The Department for Education has published the 2026 edition of Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE), with the updated ...

Children with a parent in prison will be identified earlier and connected with support services under a new government pilot ...

The Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has published an updated edition of its What is Care For? policy ...

Most sentences for domestic homicides have a 15-year starting point because they take place in the home and are often ...

Ofsted has announced a series of measures aimed at tackling the increasing use of unregistered children's homes, warning that ...

Helen Hayes MP, Chair of the Education Committee, says that the government’s apology for the state’s role in historical ...

This article examines the legal challenges transgender parents face in being recognised as legal parents under English law. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 allows transgender people to legally change ...

It then explores some of the systemic challenges faced by FDAC, primarily as a result of FDAC being an entirely voluntary scheme with no national procedural or funding framework which gives rise to ...

The author revisits the moral obligation to care for children in the context of the current interest in kinship care arrangements. Briefly noting the argument that parents do have such a moral ...

On 17 March 2026 the Lord Chancellor, David Lammy, announced the national roll out of the Child Focused Model (CFM) for ...