Half of children’s home placements probed in a major study ended in a placement change within 12 months, with almost one in five ending in an unplanned move.

Under Department for Education plans, all care leavers will be offered the opportunity to participate in a lifelong guardianship ceremony to publicly celebrate a relationship with one or more ...

The number of households with children living in bed and breakfast accommodation for longer than the statutory six-week limit has fallen by 40%, latest government figures show. The data shows there ...

More than 70 organisations have called on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to strengthen children’s rights in law and ensure they are considered across ...

The government has extended for 12 months the use of the chemical incapacitant spray Pava in three children’s prisons, with rights campaigners warning the ...

Children’s health leaders are urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to spearhead a 25-year, cross-party strategy to improve the ...

In light of a revised multi-agency inspections framework being published, Professor Michelle McManus, assesses how the ...

Children's practitioners are often left frustrated by repeated safeguarding referrals that fall below the threshold for action – but this should be seen as ...

Nearly a quarter of households with children under five are experiencing food poverty, rising to one in two among ...

The Law Commission’s Akola Munyiri and Professor Lisa Webley explain how proposed legal changes to kinship care may affect ...

Pupils eligible for free school meals missed school at more than twice the rate of their peers in the last academic year, as ...

Nearly half of children want to spend more of their free time playing active games, research has found, leading campaigners ...