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Social Care News: Integrated children's system - Councils set to miss launch deadline

6 December 2006, Children Now

Local authorities will miss en masse the Government's deadline for launching a computer record of children in contact with social services.

Social Care News: Social care stats - Cambridgeshire

6 December 2006, Children Now

11.4% of looked-after children with three or more placements in 2004/05 (13 per cent in England)

Social Care News: Private foster care - Loophole leaves children untracked

6 December 2006, Children Now

The Government has no record of thousands of vulnerable children living in private foster care, its statisticians have admitted.

Social Care News: Runaways - Social services fail to provide support

6 December 2006, Children Now

Social services often fail to provide adequate support for adolescent runaways, an NSPCC and St Christopher's Fellowship report warns.

Social Care News: Child abuse - Parents could get details on abusers

6 December 2006, Children Now

The public should have a right to ask for information about people they believe are paedophiles according to the Home Office's child sex offender review group.

Scotland: Lone parents spurn places on free childcare scheme

6 December 2006, Children Now

An evaluation of a Department for Work and Pensions initiative offering childcare to lone parents in Scotland has found that take up of the scheme was "extremely poor".

Sending Christmas to Iraq: School send soldiers gifts

6 December 2006, Children Now

A before- and after-school club in Wigan is running a project to send Christmas gifts to soldiers in Iraq.

Help from: NCMA

6 December 2006, Children Now

The National Childminding Association of England and Wales (NCMA) is a membership organisation and national charity that promotes quality home-based childcare for the benefit of children, families and communities.

Free childcare: 20 extended hours pilots revealed

6 December 2006, Children Now

The Department for Education and Skills has named all 20 of the local authorities that will pilot an extension of free childcare.

Young offenders: Call for activities for young people

6 December 2006, Children Now

Crime reduction charity Nacro called for more "meaningful" activities for young people last week after a report showed that two of the main motives for street robbery were "good times"...