Hundreds of children were sexually abused by predatory foster carers and residential home staff who were allowed to thrive, an inquiry has f...

FACEBOOK has been warned by the new Home Secretary that its plans to hide online messages risks police investigations into child abuse and t...

Northamptonshire children’s services have been graded as inadequate by Ofsted which has found some looked-after children are living in unsaf...

The “high and sometimes sudden turnover” of social work staff at a children’s services trust is continuing to cripple improvement efforts, a...

A man who falsely alleged he had been a victim of a supposed child sex ring decades ago involving high-profile individuals including senior ...

A man who falsely alleged he had been a victim of a supposed child sex ring decades ago involving high-profile individuals including senior ...

A council where children’s services were at “breaking point” last year has begun to show signs of improvement, Ofsted inspectors have said. ...

An ‘inadequate’ children’s service where some social work caseloads exceed 50 children has been criticised by Ofsted for “insufficient progr...

FURIOUS parents are claiming that schools are banning teachers from dabbing life-saving sun cream on pupils as they might be accused of chil...

THIS is the touching moment half sisters met their birth mum for the first time - more than 60 years after was forced to give them up for ad...

A MUM says she was forced to move her two adopted children to Wales after they were bullied at a Swindon school. The woman, who wished to ...

Sir Andrew McFarlane said many hearings could be avoided, and went on to call for a "public education programme" on how to be a pa...

A distraught Belfast mother who was sent creepy texts by her social worker says the ordeal has ruined her life and ripped her family apart. ...

Senior judges warned yesterday of a growing risk of knife attacks and violence by parents in the family courts. They believe that judges a...

Schools are failing to meet the needs of adopted children because of growing funding constraints and inadequate teacher training, research h...

Families that have given up children for adoption are increasingly using social media to track them down as teenagers, threatening to destab...

A social worker who was employed by Wolverhampton City Council has been struck off by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) for fil...

In 1969, at the age of 19, she was gang raped and forced to give up the resulting baby for adoption — a baby boy she wanted to keep. More ...

No parent ever forgets that first proud procession from the car to the family home. Ali Sanders remembers every tiny detail of the day she b...

A social worker who lied that she had paid regular visits to a baby when she hadn’t seen him for 30 months has been struck off. After a th...