The news items that should be right on your radar:

• ‘Baby P’ council is in the dock again: Judge blasts Haringey social workers who exposed boys to known paedophile
• Contact during lockdown: How are children and their birth families keeping in touch? (Research)
• The effects of digital contact on children’s well-being (Research)

Many thanks to Dana for sharing the first news item with us.

The child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• Seychelles bans corporal punishment in the home
• US Foster children’s lawsuit against Dept of Child Services to move forward
• England and Wales Family Court Data on Case Loads (See Table 2, second and third segments)

The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• Study Into Forced Adoption Raises Transparency Concerns (Netherlands)
• Labour tables motion to annul emergency Coronavirus measures relaxing councils’ adoption and children duties (England and Wales)
• New research: A Typology of Child Sexual Abuse Offending (UK)

The lates child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• Coronavirus: Number of adoption inquiries rising as people ‘have more time to think about their futures’ during lockdown (Paywall, but the heading is concerning)
• Child, 12, forced into foster care after nurse mum dies of coronavirus
• New tech to help keep the justice system moving during COVID-19 pandemic– Being introduced to the Family courts, Civil courts and Criminal courts

The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• COURTS: Summary of family business 
• Child Welfare’s Response to COVID-19 Is Sickening (US)
• Wrexham Council to start providing cash to families of children on free school meals

The latest child welfare items that should be right in your radar:

• Judge condemns ‘abomination’ of secrecy surrounding family courts
• Courts and Tribunals Tracker
• Illinois health officials announce first death of an infant with COVID-19 (US)

The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• How the Department for Education failed children adopted from overseas
• Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’ (The Report)
• Darlington man caught with more than 45,000 child sex abuse images avoids prison

The latest items on child welfare:

• Prince Andrew hires PR man who advised VIPs accused of child sex abuse
• Jon Venables could be freed in weeks despite repeated child sex crimes as James Bulger’s dad warns ‘he’ll kill again’
• Chair of working group advising the government on standards for unregulated care settings counters campaigners’ concerns that it is secretive and ignoring the views of care experienced people

The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• Lawmakers Support Public Hanging For Paedophiles (Pakistan)
• Former monk who sexually abused boys as young as nine jailed for more than 20 years (England)
• State’s first conviction for coercive control handed down in Donegal Circuit Court (Ireland)
• Strict new measures to protect vulnerable children in care (England and Wales)

Many thanks to Catherine for sharing the third item with us.

The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• Supreme Court of Japan says Nude Computer Generated Images Based on Child Photos Are Pornography
• Woman arrested on suspicion of murder after three children found dead inside Dublin house
• Thousands of images of child abuse on man’s computer just the ‘tip of the iceberg’