Children’s social care should place greater emphasis on supporting children to return safely to their families, according to ...

The government has launched a consultation on plans to reform weddings law in England and Wales, aiming to create a more ...

An interim arrangement has been introduced to address difficulties accessing legal aid for decision hearings in child-focused ...

Mário Barroso, Head of R&D and Method Development at AlphaBiolabs, examines the forensic science underpinning hair drug ...

The Department for Education has published the 2026 edition of Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE), with the updated ...

Children in youth custody will benefit from strengthened safeguarding arrangements under a package of reforms announced by ...

Children with a parent in prison will be identified earlier and connected with support services under a new government pilot ...

According to ADCS, the care system must move beyond traditional binary approaches to care and instead respond more ...

In this article, Baljinder Bath, family law barrister at 4PB, evaluates the Government's approach to supporting local authorities in their use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other digital ...

Ofsted has announced a series of measures aimed at tackling the increasing use of unregistered children's homes, warning that ...

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This article asks the question – should the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court be used to place restrictions on the life choices of individuals with capacity on the grounds that the individual is ...