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Parliamentary inquiry to examine mental health support for children and young people

16 FEB 2026

Research highlights financial and employment pressures on kinship carers amid calls for statutory paid leave

16 FEB 2026

Adoption UK raises concerns as Department for Education launches adoption support reform consultation

16 FEB 2026

Safeguarding review urges stronger pre-birth protection following baby Victoria Marten Case

16 FEB 2026

Department for Education signals expansion of Regional Care Cooperatives to reform children’s placement market

9 FEB 2026

Councils warn SEND funding pressures risk insolvency without structural reform

9 FEB 2026

Government sets ambitious foster recruitment targets amid wider children’s social care reform

9 FEB 2026

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Parliamentary inquiry to examine mental health support for children and...

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Research highlights financial and employment pressures on kinship carers...

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Adoption UK raises concerns as Department for Education launches adoption...

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Department for Education signals expansion of Regional Care Cooperatives to...

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Councils warn SEND funding pressures risk insolvency without structural...

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Government sets ambitious foster recruitment targets amid wider children’s...

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Dr Sharon Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University and is co-editor of case notes for Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. Her monograph Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice (Hart 2015) was shortlisted for the 2017 Birks Prize, 2016 SLSA Socio-Legal Prize and 2016 SLSA Early Career Prize.

Tom joined the RadcliffesLeBrasseur as a Trainee Solicitor in September 2019 and is currently in his first seat in the healthcare providers team.

Prior to joining the firm, Tom read Law at Liverpool, graduating in 2016. He was then awarded a Distinction in the Legal Practice Course from the University of Law in Manchester. Prior to starting his training contract, Tom worked as a paralegal at two other law firms.

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Parliamentary inquiry to examine mental health support for children and young people

A joint parliamentary inquiry has been launched by the Education Committee and the Health and Social Care Committee to examine the availability and effectiveness of mental health support for children...

Research highlights financial and employment pressures on kinship carers amid calls for statutory paid leave

New research published by Kinship has highlighted the significant financial, employment and wellbeing pressures faced by kinship carers, with the charity calling on the government to introduce...

Adoption UK raises concerns as Department for Education launches adoption support reform consultation

Adoption UK has welcomed the government’s decision to undertake a full review of adoption support in England, while raising concerns about proposals to devolve funding for therapeutic services to...

Safeguarding review urges stronger pre-birth protection following baby Victoria Marten Case

A national child safeguarding review has urged immediate reform to improve the protection of vulnerable unborn babies and infants, following the death of baby Victoria Marten and the subsequent...

Family law meets insolvency: protecting the home, balancing creditors

Charlotte Posnansky, Hanh Nguyen, Jamie Kennaugh, Francesca Heath-Clarke and Daniel Staunton, Charles Russell Speechlys LLPThis article explores the interplay between family...

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