Panel including chief social worker and ex-children's minister says forthcoming care review must consider key questions about the practice skills, policies and statutory arrangements needed to best ...

14 years after Munro report called for shift to systemic approach to reviews, they remain focused on what happened, rather than how and why, finds study for national safeguarding panel Image: ...

More than 480 children in England died or were seriously harmed by abuse or neglect, a new report has revealed, a day after 10-year-old Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother were found guilty of her ...

In 1973, Maria Colwell, a seven-year-old girl from Whitehawk, was violently beaten by her stepfather sustaining severe internal and external injuries from which she died. She had been in foster care ...