The Law Commission has decided to backtrack on its previous recommendation for a new legal framework for disabled children’s social care. But is it right to do so? Amean Elghady is a specialist family ...
In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record ...
On what would have been Divine’s 80th birthday, Herman Lategan explores how Harris Glenn Milstead became the actor who made ‘filth’ divine, and why his legacy still disrupts pop culture. He spoke to ...
A woman who was arrested on suspicion of murder after two children died in Stafford has been detained under the Mental Health Act. Meraj Ul Zahra, two, and Abdul Momin Alfaateh, three, were found ...
Councillors are due to get an update on the reforms within Cumberland Council’s children’s social care service this week.
Parents in England can still claim 'reasonable punishment' under the Children Act 2004 FOOTIE pundit Alan Shearer and actor Sir Michael Caine have urged Sir Keir Starmer to ban the smacking of ...
Schools and libraries have been told to pull popular children’s books from shelves after a web address printed inside was hijacked by a pornography website. The link, found inside Andrew Cope’s Spy ...
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Parents have been left alarmed after a seemingly innocent series of children's books was found to contain links to porn. On the surface, these editions of The Spy Dog, Spy Pups and Spy Cat books by ...
At least 1,611 homeless people died in the UK last year, including 11 children, latest figures suggest. The Museum of Homelessness gathers data annually from freedom of information requests, coroner ...
‘HISTORIC FIRST’: Renewables have overtaken coal to become the world’s leading source of electricity for the first six months of this year in a “historic first”, BBC News said. The analysis, from the ...
In the past decade spending on children with SEND in England has almost doubled, reaching £11.6bn ($15.5bn). Yet even as ...