These are the latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• Families are torn apart by unregulated experts (Parental alienation in custody battles is being put above abuse and coercion)
• Family court backlog climbs to 110,000 cases
• Turpin siblings were ‘hit with belts, told to commit suicide, and forced to eat their own vomit’ after being placed in foster home (US)