The news items that should be right on your radar:

• Family Court Social workers given new guidelines for children who shun contact with a parent – despite the absence of agreed research in the area
• Ofsted criticises ‘opaque’ language that families don’t understand in child protection plans
• Damning Ofsted report was ‘generous’, says new Surrey children’s services director

Many thanks to Dana for the last news item.

The latest child welfare developments:

• Summary of Westminster Hall Debate on findings of the Care Crisis Review
• Ofsted goes Digital
• Second Reading Set For Private Members’ Bill to Raise Minimum Age of Consent for Marriage or Civil Partnership to eighteen

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

• Home Office’s £13m scheme to help vulnerable children 
• Nuns charged over abuse at Scottish children’s home
• Campaigners urge Pope to deliver plan to tackle child abuse

The news items that should be right on your radar:

• Child abuse including rape by hundreds of priests in Pennsylvania was covered up
• New guide for paediatricians as expert witnesses in the Family Courts
• Schools will find it harder to exclude children with special needs after landmark ruling

The news items that should be right on your radar:

• Government responds to Education Committee’s report into fostering
• Call for tougher sentences in England and Wales for sharing and downloading child abuse images
• Model says adoption can be an alternative to abortion for women with unwanted babies

The latest items that should be right on your radar:

• Canadian forced adoption mother talks about how her baby was taken
• In 2017, courts handled over 250,000 family cases (HMCTS Annual Report)
• Munby retires as President of the Family Division

The latest stories that should be right on your radar:

• Judge’s Newsletter Focuses On The Voice Of The Child
• President’s Guidance: Arrangements for adoption visits
• Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey admits church failed abuse victims

The latest child welfare and family stories:

• Cuts to council budgets leave 36,000 children at risk of potential abuse and neglect
• Domestic violence toolkit unveiled for employers
• MOJ Research on Domestic Violence confirms victims still face barriers when trying to access legal aid

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

• Australia sexual abuse: PM accepts landmark inquiry proposals
• UK Child Trafficking: ECHR brings case against Home Office over treatment of minor
• Pakistan’s shame: the open secret of child sex abuse in the workplace

The news items that should be right on your radar:

• 80% of missing trafficked children come from the care sector (US) – (Access NMEC Reports here )
• Children stuck in custody battles to be heard by judge under radical reform (Australia)
• Up to 50,000 child abuse cases registered every year (Switzerland)

Many thanks to Dana for the first news item.