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There has been a 73 per cent fall in the number of children in custody over the last 10 years, according to research.
There were 4,208 fewer custodial sentences handed out in 2018 than there was a decade ago – a fall of 73 per cent, the analysis by crime and justice specialists Crest has [...]

A summary of the Ofsted reports of children's services published during November.
Norfolk transforms ‘front door’ arrangements
The ‘front door’ of Norfolk children’s services has been completely transformed since the last Ofsted inspection of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers in November 2017.
A focused visit [...]

The Family Rights Group has launched a campaign urging people to raise awareness of kinship care ahead of the General Election.
The FRG highlights that around 200,000 children in the UK are being raised by kinship carers including grandparents, older siblings, other relatives or friends, and largely due to tragedy or trauma.
These children are [...]

Foster carer, feature writer and photographer David Bocking talks about his experience fostering for Sheffield City Council.
In our first weeks together while carrying our wriggling foster toddler down the street, my wife or I would sometimes have brief conversations with passing acquaintances.
“Hello! How are you?” we’d say as our witty and beautiful child [...]

The regulation of social workers in England is set to move from the Health and Care Professions Council to Social Work England on 2 December.
In January 2016, the Department for Education launched a paper 'A vision for change', in which it announced that there would be a new regulatory body for [...]

More than 60 per cent of teachers have seen a rise in child poverty in their school or college since 2015, according to a poll by the National Education Union.

More than a third of NEU members said they had bought food for pupils who cannot afford it, 57 per cent of members said they had [...]