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Lisa Harker: 'Concerns about deprivation of liberty orders are the norm and not an exception'. Picture: Nuffield FJO

News 22 June 2023

Half of children deprived of liberty placed in unregistered settings

News 22 June 2023

Campaign launches to champion social work

The report notes that increased data is needed to ensure siblings are not being separated while in care. Picture: SnapicPhotoProduct/Adobe Stock

News 22 June 2023

Scotland’s care system reforms ‘no longer on track’, report finds

'We are young people who have had traumatic journeys', former child migrants wrote. Picture: Lydia Geissler/Adobe Stock

News 22 June 2023

Child migrants urge peers to vote against Illegal Migration Bill

Almost a fifth of asylum seekers arriving in the UK are under 18, according to government figures. Picture: Angelov/Adobe Stock

News 21 June 2023

Charities call for plan to support child refugees

Ray Jones, former chair of the British Association of Social Workers, authored the report. Picture: CSC Review NI

News 21 June 2023

Regional organisation could fix child protection crisis, Northern Irish care review finds

Social workers took to the picket line in South Gloucestershire earlier this month. Picture: Unison

News 20 June 2023

Adult social workers strike over recruitment payments for children’s services staff

Family Rights Group founder Angela Frazer-Wicks has been awarded an MBE. Picture: Family Rights Group

News 19 June 2023

Children’s sector leaders recognised in King’s first birthday honours

Ofsted chief told MPs that increasing regulations for providers caring for children with SEND was worth considering. Picture: Amanda Spielman/Ofsted

News 15 June 2023

Tougher standards for disabled children's care providers 'worth considering', says Ofsted chief

Care-experienced young people from across the country delivered the campaign report to Downing Street. Pictures: Terry Galloway

News 15 June 2023

Care leavers champion protected characteristic campaign at Downing Street

Family group conferences involve family and friends of children at risk of being taken into care. Picture: Fizkes/AdobeStock

News 14 June 2023

Family group conferences could keep 2,000 children a year out of care, study concludes

The legal dispute was launched after 66 children were reported missing from a Home Office hotel in Brighton and Hove. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 12 June 2023

Councils responsible for unaccompanied children in Home Office hotels, judge rules

Johnson said she hopes a policy change would help people understand the additional challenges faced by care-experienced people. Picture: Elle Johnson

News 12 June 2023

Tackle stereotypes by making care experience a protected characteristic, campaigner urges

ECPAT UK has branded the practice of housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Home Office hotels as 'unlawful'. Picture: Yekaterina/Adobe Stock

News 12 June 2023

Charity launches legal action over children placed in ‘unlawful’ asylum hotels

Plymouth DCS Sharon Muldoon said she is proud of what the department has achieved during her year in post. Picture: Sharon Muldoon/Plymouth City Council

News 9 June 2023

DCS to step down after just a year in post