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Former minister Helen Grant MP is one of the few solicitors to be recognised in the first New Year honours list of the reign of King...

Coram Voice and the Rees Centre at the University of Oxford have reported the Bright Spots Research '10,000 voices: the views of children...

The Domestic Abuse Commissioner, building upon the October 2021 Report 'Safety before Status' has now published "Safety Before Status:...

Ofsted has published its Annual Report 2021/22, which examines the quality of schools, early years, children's social care and further...

The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel has published its Annual Report relating to child safeguarding incidents in 2021. Read the...

The Fostering Network have announced plans to carry out vital research into the retention and recruitment of foster carers in England to...

The Welsh Government has published a helpful Guidance Note on handling cross-border child protection cases for local authorities, health...

A High Court judge has insisted that the public should know about what he called the ‘scandal’ of children’s care placements in North...

Confidential addresses of two people applying for non-molestation orders were disclosed to the respondents, the Ministry of Justice has...

Insufficient data and inadequate implementation and monitoring of the Children and Families Act 2014 have made what should have been a...

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced that children affected by domestic abuse will be automatically treated as victims...

The number of children currently in unregulated settings has increased from 2,900 in 2009 to 6,050 in 2021. The Department for Education...

More than half (52 per cent) of children in care had a criminal conviction by age 24 compared to 13 per cent of children who had not been...

The House of Commons Library has published a helpful briefing outlining the support available for victims and survivors of domestic abuse...

Between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2022 there were 470 deaths in England and Wales which took place in a domestic setting or following...

New data from the Domestic Abuse Commissioner has revealed the huge scale of inequalities in service provision for victims and survivors...

In 2021, there were 6,731 civil partnerships formed in England and Wales, a decrease of 19.4 per cent from 8,351 in 2020. Read the full...

A new report by researchers from the School for Policy Studies and University of Bristol Law School, funded by the Nuffield Family...

Under a new scheme announced by the Ministry of Justice, police forces, prison governors and victims' services will work together to...