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

• Live-stream family cases in Court of Appeal, says master of the rolls
• 52 incidents of abuse and neglect proved at ‘children’s prison’ in Milton Keynes
• Thousands of siblings split up in care system

Welcome to another year.

These are the latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• ‘Radical rethink’ on grooming gangs needed, says NSPCC after 19,000 children sexually exploited in year
• More than 500 children a day are becoming victims of thefts and muggings 
• Scientists claim lying down with your kids until they fall asleep is good for them and can reduce mental health problems later in life

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

• Family Court Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2019
• Care Quality Commission survey looking at experiences of children and young people receiving hospital care(you can search by trust)
• Responsible Child’s Owen McDonnell talks ‘heartbreaking’ real-life story behind true crime drama

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

• The Boy in the Video – Radio 4 documentary looking at child sexual abuse online
• Former care home boss John Allen found guilty of more child sex abuse
• Teens arrested worldwide, as police smash global pedophile ring

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

• New plans unveiled to give frontline social workers more power 
• Nearly 700 children are identified as being at risk of domestic violence every day
• New children’s book highlights record levels of food poverty

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

• Court case could make children’s hearings system fair to siblings at last (Scotland)
• George Pell’s appeal against child sex abuse convictions to be heard by High Court (Australia)
• Calls for Cardinal Nichols to resign over safeguarding failures (England and Wales)

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

• ‘France let me keep baby UK wanted to take away’
• New Judgment: NY (A Child) [2019] UKSC 49. The appeal concerned a father’s application for an order for the immediate return of his daughter from England and Wales to Israel.
• Research: “Family? … Not Just Blood”: Constructions of “Family” in Adult, Former Foster Children’s Narratives.

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

• Sale of babies on black market exposed in Russia
• ‘Dark web’ sting sees 337 child abuse suspects snared in one of biggest investigations ever seen
• Education Secretary announces new support for adoptive families

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

• A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime: Relational Permanence Among Young Adults with Foster Care Backgrounds – Research
• NHS vows to stop locking up autistic children
• NHS to improve young people’s hospital mental health, learning disability and autism services

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

• At-risk teenager forced to live on series of caravan parks due to residential care shortage – Judge overseeing the case felt the story needed to be told
• Young people leaving custody receiving inadequate social care, inspectors warn
• This week’s Ombudsman children complaint decisions