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

• US: People Are Giving Away Their Unwanted Adopted Children Through Internet Forums
• UK: New Research Suggests Growing Support For Relationship Based Social Work (The model mentioned is called Signs Of Safety)
• WORLD: Most children in orphanages are not orphans

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

• Child Abuse Should Be Police Priority – Survey
• New government action announced to tackle online child sexual abuse
• Surge in paedophiles searching for child abuse online getting out of hand, judge warns

The latest family and child welfare items:

• Balancing the rights of domestic abuse victims and their alleged abusers in court
• Councils ‘on the brink’ after surge in children protection plans
• Revealed: The areas with sharpest rises in child protection plans
• Supreme Court: bad behaviour by parent irrelevant to best interests of children

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

• More than 19,000 babies under one at risk of severe harm in their own homes, report finds
• MPs call for ‘stronger action’ to tackle domestic abuse
• Research launched to assess whether biased advice is distorting access to justice

Child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

• Redistributing care: why respite support should exist for birth families, not just foster carers and adopters
• US child maltreatment center gets $6.5million grant (oof) – focuses on Big Data
• Court of Protection cases being ‘transferred up’

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

• Convicted Paedophiles: Ireland to become first in Europe to cancel the passports of paedophiles
• Mandatory Reporting Of Child Abuse: Teachers, nurses and priests could be jailed over Tasmania’s new child abuse disclosure laws
• Child Abuse: Scottish Inquiry says orphanages were places of ‘threat and abuse’

The latest news stories that should be right on your radar:

• Statistics watchdog launches two investigations into the government’s “disingenuous” use of data.
• Common Sense Media Launches Child Advocacy Group in Britain Focusing On Privacy
• Internet Watch Foundation: Child protection must stay top of world agenda

News items that should be right on your radar:

• Female majority to hear Supreme Court case for first time in history – case involves a 16 year old girl with Asperger’s Syndrome and learning difficulties. (Court of Appeal Judgment)
• No Fault Divorce To Be Implemented (House of Commons Briefing Paper)
• Rise in Men Reporting Domestic Abuse

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