Under Department for Education plans, all care leavers will be offered the opportunity to participate in a lifelong ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

An unregistered children’s home provider has been fined £92,400 after its directors admitted operating illegal settings – in ...