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The first young people supported by a new Government programme for the long-term unemployed have started their jobs.
£25 million investment to help thousands more care leavers access homes with support and connection.
A company and its directors have been convicted and sentenced for operating unregistered children's homes in Kent following a criminal prosecution brought by Ofsted.
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Mothers and babies in focus as £4.5 million funding rolled out to improve Berkshire maternity and neonatal services.
A statutory direction reissued to Sandwell Council to reflect that the council entered into a regional adoption agency on 1 April 2019.
Statutory direction issued to Herefordshire Council in relation to children's services.
The government will ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under 16s in England from April 2027.
First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government
All babies in England will be screened for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
Families across the country are being encouraged to help children stay active over the summer holidays.
Ofsted has today outlined a change in its approach to tackling unregistered children’s homes, designed to stop unsafe and unlawful placements and to address issues of sufficiency in the children’s social care system.
Funding will see a consistent, national Independent Child Trafficking Guardians service for child survivors of modern slavery and trafficking.
Ministers have launched a crackdown on vapes marketed at kids with a shift to plain white packaging.
Professor Chris Whitty writes for The i paper on the update to the UK CMOs' physical activity guidelines.
Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, and Yvette Stanley, National Director, Regulation and Social Care, spoke at the ADCS Annual Conference in Manchester.
Updated UK Chief Medical Officers' physical activity guidelines find even small amounts of physical activity benefit health.
Statutory directions issued due to poor performance in children's social care services (now revoked) and inadequate improvement in SEND services.
An improvement notice issued to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council to improve services for children and young people with SEND.
Children with a parent in prison will be recognised earlier and connected to support under a new government pilot to help them thrive
Expansion of dynamic new model for children’s social care, cracking down on profiteering and more local support for foster carers and children in care
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