Jan 21: The children's commissioner for Wales, Peter Clarke, dies of cancer aged 58. He was the first person in the UK to hold such a role.
Jan 26: Rod Morgan quits as chair of the Youth Justice Board. He says on the BBC's Newsnight that evening: "I regard a 26 per cent increase in the number of children and young people that are being drawn into the system in the past three years as swamping."
Feb 01: A new school admissions code comes into force. But experts fear that children in care and those with special needs could still struggle to access schools.
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