Local government and children’s services leaders have defended councils’ use of unregistered children’s homes after Ofsted announced it will take a tougher ...

Summary of research that assessed how access to outdoor play in the pre-school years affected children's mental health at the age of eight.

The Fordingbridge case has reignited the debate over the use of custody for young people. Here, former children's commissioner Maggie Atkinson argues that ...

A training programme, led by young people with experience of the care system, is helping improve the skills of Personal ...

The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Donna Jones, has welcomed the decision by the ...

Campaigners are calling for care leavers to receive stronger national and local support to overcome basic barriers to work ...

The Department for Education is offering councils support to identify and help teenagers at risk of becoming not in education ...

The group of professionals leading the government's review of the children's residential care workforce say their work is the start of a "long process" to ...

The group of professionals leading the government's review of the children's residential care workforce say their work as the start of a "long process" to ...

With the childcare system not working well for many providers or parents, will the latest government-commissioned probe into ...

Care leavers’ chances of progressing to higher education vary sharply depending on where they live, according to a sector ...

A probe into England’s childcare sector will examine whether funding and affordability pressures are leaving families ...