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

• More parents told of paedophile risk to kids
• Children in custody forced to go without showers or phone calls in ‘harmful’ solitary confinement, inspectors warn
• Number of children in care reaches record levels in Blackburn and Darwen

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

• First woman to have her murder conviction overturned under coercive control laws says courses on domestic abuse should be taught in schools
• Apple scans iCloud photos to check for child abuse
• Childhood deprivation affects brain size and behaviour

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

• Children in mental distress denied NHS help until close to suicide
• Angela Allen: Nursery abuse ring member to be freed from jail
• A Parents’ Guide To Free Mental Health Support For Your Kids

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

• ‘Inadequate’ county to lose control of children’s services as review finds toxic culture
• Inconsistency with reporting and documenting cases involving vulnerable children highlighted by Ofsted at Surrey’s children’s services. 
• Will this be the Parliament to enact a domestic abuse bill? (House of Commons Library)

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

• UK and US join forces to crack down on child abuse images
• Children’s transgender clinic hit by 35 resignations in three years as psychologists warn of gender dysphoria ‘over-diagnoses’
• New children and education complaint decisions from the Local Government Ombudsman 

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)