Five years ago, we embarked on a journey into children’s health and social care assessments, to gain insight into the processes children and families must go through as local authorities and other ...

England’s most disadvantaged pupils will be among the first to benefit from free breakfast clubs, the government has said.

Learning points from investigations into council fostering services are collated in a new report from the Local Government ...

Campaigners are urging the government to ‘get children playing again' amid a squeeze on the activity – particularly in ...

The Welsh government has announced a £30 million boost for funded childcare, which has been welcomed by a leading early years ...

The Charity Commission has launched an investigation into a youth sports charity in Walsall, an area with one of the highest ...

A switch to a targeted, localised joint work by police, health professionals and social workers to protect children in ...

Kinship carers have marched to the Treasury with empty shopping trollies to call for a financial allowance for all kinship ...

The family of a teenager who was stabbed to death three years ago are among campaigners backing measures to curb the sale of knives online.