Amid concerns around the lack of support for adopters, an organisation specialising in providing therapeutic services has ...

Former Conservative children’s minister Will Quince has been appointed chief executive of the 1001 Critical Days Foundation – ...

A youth centre serving a deprived area of Thanet has been saved from closure after being awarded £535,000 in government funding.

The government is to introduce a package of measures to reverse the long-term decline in fostering households, children and ...

Children's services professionals from across the UK have been recognised in the King’s New Year Honours List.

There is likely to be debate on whether the UK should follow Australia's social media ban for under-16s, but rather than ...

Researchers have highlighted significant pressure on councils from rising severity and complexity of need among under fives. Councils report higher rates of language development problems among young ...

Stronger collaboration between youth work providers and schools is key to improving attendance rates for vulnerable children, an independent inquiry commissioned by the National Youth Agency (NYA) has ...

Anna Freud would have welcomed the review into rates of mental health, autism and ADHD diagnosis as a way of better ...

Girls have not been placed in HMYOI Wetherby, the only YOI accepting girls, for several months The move was among recommendations made in an independent review into the health issues facing girls in ...

Sector leaders have raised concerns over a lack of “suitable” nursery places as the Department for Education opens applications for funded childcare hours to parents of children as young as nine ...

The government has announced more funding to roll out the Families First Partnership programme across England. Here, children's minister Josh MacAlister calls on local safeguarding leaders to "step up ...