Child welfare items today:

• New York passed a raft of historic child welfare bills this year – all of them aimed to strengthen birth family ties (US)
• Adoption agencies to target black churches and mosques in bid to find homes for hard to place children, government announces (UK)
• This week’s children and education complaint decisions from the Ombudsman (England and Wales) (there are several interesting cases)

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

• ‘Baffling and hostile’: Abuse survivors lament civil justice process
• Summer-born children ‘more likely to be diagnosed with depression’ than older pupils
• PM steps up UK effort to get every girl in the world into school

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

• Teen mum ordered to give up baby for adoption after 13-minute court case
• Nursery worker Vanessa George released from prison after 10 years behind bars for child sexual offences
• How over-reporting and monitoring by social services stress families and weaken communities (US)

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

• Major review into support for children with special educational needs 
• EU children in custody to be stripped of rights as Home Office prevents them from applying for settled status
• New guide for parents of LGBT+ children

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

• Police chief faces backlash over comments suggesting those who used guns could have their children taken into state care
• Con artist who defrauded a desperate mother going through family court is jailed 
• Love me or leave me: the possible impact of Brexit on families in the UK and beyond

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

• Social workers face troubling questions over the death of three-year-old Alfie Lamb after his mother’s boyfriend pleads guilty to crushing him to death with a car seat – England 
• New Bill will ‘strengthen children’s rights’ in family law court cases – Scotland 
  • Press release for Scotland’s new Children’s Bill (includes draft of the Bill)
• Thousands of vulnerable children risk falling foul to hostile environment due to ‘woefully inadequate’ support – EU

The latest child welfare items:

• Priti Patel announces curfews for 12-year-olds among tough new knife crime laws
• Government pledges £3.3 million to help prevent mental illness in children 
• Children make people happier – but only once they’ve left home, study finds

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

• Children in care ask the government to stop holding care reviews in schools
• The “long arm” of the police – how “confidential “ are family proceedings?
• 25% of young adults now living at home with their parents (ONS)

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

• Nearly 600,000 children affected by two-child limit on benefits
• Hunger in summer: ‘More children need help with food this summer’
• Police and teachers back Welsh anti-smacking bill

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

• Westminster child abuse accuser found guilty of perverting course of justice
• £750,000 awarded to support victims of sexual abuse
• Government scheme for use of children as ‘spies’ is lawful, High Court judge rules