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The father of Baby Peter is planning to sue Haringey Council for failing to protect his son.The father, who cannot be named, is believed to be seeking £200,000 and claims that he told social workers...

Nearly 500 children were reported abducted in 336 separate cases in 2008, according to figures released to The Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.The figure showed a 20 percent increase on...

A test case to decide the strength of a father's rights over other members of a child's extended family to bring up his children is to go to the highest court in the land, the new Supreme Court which...

Unison, the union representing 40,000 social workers, has warned that morale has hit rock bottom as vacancies for social workers were standing at "a danger level" of 12 percent across the...

Mr Justice Munby has been appointed chairman of the Law Commission, for three years from 1 August, the Lord Chancellor has announced.Sir James succeeds the Right Honourable Lord Justice Etherton, who...

The number of couples entering a civil partnership has dropped 18 per cent - from 8,728 in 2007 to 7,169 in 2008, according to the Office for National Statistics.Civil partnership dissolutions have...

A man from West Yorkshire has been removed from the register of social workers by the General Social Care Council (GSCC) after encouraging vulnerable teenagers known to his youth offending team to...

More people are calling the NSPCC Helpline about serious child abuse since the death of Baby Peter two years ago.In the year between April 2008 and March 2009, the NSPCC phone service passed on 11,243...

The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision to dismiss care proceedings for three siblings, after one girl said she had been kicked and slapped by her parents.The High Court judge found...

Almost 794,000 children are benefiting as the Child Support Agency (CSA) collected or arranged £1,136 million in child maintenance across Great Britain over the past twelve months, according to the...

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