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

• First “Forget Me Not Garden” dedicated to parents and wider family members affected by adoption, opens
• New children and education complaint decisions from the Local Government Ombudsman
• Social work manager ‘ignored crucial information’ in case where girl suffered life-threatening neglect

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

• NHS child safety boss investigated after mum wrongly accused of trying to murder disabled daughter
• A child loses their home ‘every eight minutes’, charity says
• UK children are among the unhappiest in the world

Many thanks to Dana for alerting us to the first news item.

Welcome to another week.

Today we thought we would share some thought provoking items which have recently been made public:

• Research: Risk of Fatal Injury in Young Children Following Abuse Allegations: Evidence From a Prospective, Population-Based Study (US)
• New Case: Court of Appeal orders “unprecedented” second retrial in care proceedings following death of 10-year-old girl
• Report: Children at risk of ‘new threats’ like climate change, warns UNICEF

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

• Domestic violence and substance abuse fuelling rise of children in care
• The UK’s first storybook written by children in care
• Children’s services in St Helens rated inadequate after damning Ofsted inspection

Child welfare research, news and more:

• Research: Key factors and characteristics of successful resource parents who care for older youth (US)
• Social services worker ‘lied in court to convince judge to remove four children from their parents she claimed took drugs’ (US)
• Number of Recorded Sexual offences against Northern Ireland children at an ‘all-time high’ (NI)

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