Tom Wright from Birketts LLP outlines the role of public agencies, social care practitioners and birth families when medical ...

The Department for Education has announced plans to give every school in England an individual minimum attendance improvement ...

Nine local authorities across England have been awarded funding to embed evidence-based approaches in children’s social care, ...

Surrey children’s services staff went to the wrong address to check on 10-year-old Sara Sharif the day before she was ...

Latest data shows there was an alarming rise in the number of children and young people referred to the government’s Prevent ...

Council leaders say the government should write off billions of pounds in overspends on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services to avoid the “total collapse” of the system in ...

Paediatricians have urged the government to recognise the "critical opportunity" to prioritise child health presented by its forthcoming 10-year workforce plan.

Researchers have raised concerns over the unequal strain being felt by mainstream schools with the highest populations of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Hundreds of children are being locked up while awaiting trial because of inadequate local authority provision, the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned.