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

• Victims of domestic violence in Australia ten times more likely to experience other legal problems
• Mother who took her life and her four children’s lives was known to social services in Australia
• Self-harm among children doubles at troubled Feltham youth jail

Many thanks to Charles Pragnell for alerting us to the first two articles.

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

• Scotland backs general principles of Bill to ban smacking
• Campaign in Scotland demands mandatory jail terms for anyone convicted of sexual offences involving a child
• Single parent adoptions reach record high in the UK

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

• Almost half of millennials in UK exposed to domestic abuse during childhood, poll finds
• United Nations concerned over sexual abuse of children in UK custody
• Government announces £15 million investment for Family Drug and Alcohol Court- style initiatives

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

• Crime Agency Chief Warns UK Could Have ‘Thousands More Paedophiles” Than Estimated 
• Tech giants allowed to give evidence to national child abuse inquiry in secret
• Study: Illinois sometimes brushes aside abuse allegations

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

• Age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales ‘too low’ says watchdog
• NHS failing child sex abuse survivors with ‘woeful’ support, victim says
• Views sought over proposals to improve support for child abuse victims
• Edward Timpson publishes landmark exclusions review

The latest items about children in care:

• Children in care could be sent to boarding schools under new government scheme
• Torfaen council chief executive warning over number of children going into care
• More than 150 children still not allocated a social worker by Northamptonshire social services

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

• DfE plans compulsory register of home-schooled children
• Doctor who assessed Alesha’s killer calls for psychopathic behaviour screening for children
• Newham Council social services criticised in Ofsted report
• Home Office set to place legal duty on doctors, teachers and social workers to spot signs of knife crime involvement

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

• Ellie Yarrow-Sanders: Missing mum and son Olly, three, found after family court dispute
• Adoption services ‘in crisis’ due to cutbacks
• Adoption Register for England to close on Friday 29th March 2019 (referrals stopped on 22 March)

The latest child welfare news:

• Investigative journalist tells child abuse inquiry he was given a list of ’16 paedophile MPs’ but it was seized in raid
• Twenty arrested in Wakefield child sexual exploitation inquiry
• Trump officials won’t talk to Congress about sexual abuse of kids they stole