The Department for Education has caused anger among nurseries and parents over a social media post promoting policy changes that it claims will deliver “cheaper childcare”.

Learning points from investigations into council fostering services are collated in a report from the Local Government and ...

Campaigners are urging the government to ‘get children playing again' amid a squeeze on the activity – particularly in ...

England’s most disadvantaged pupils will be among the first to benefit from free breakfast clubs, the government has said.

Five years ago, we embarked on a journey into children’s health and social care assessments, to gain insight into the processes children and families must go through as local authorities and other ...

Campaigners are urging the government to take urgent action to tackle the "stark" overrepresentation of young people from ...

The Welsh government has announced a £30 million boost for funded childcare, which has been welcomed by a leading early years ...

A switch to targeted, localised joint work by police, health professionals and social workers to protect children in ...

The Charity Commission has launched an investigation into a youth sports charity in Walsall, an area with one of the highest ...

The government has launched a £62 million study to examine the impact of vaping on young people, amid the trend which has ...

Kinship carers have marched to the Treasury with empty shopping trollies to call for a financial allowance for all kinship ...

A school-based support project that helps pupils “normalise everyday emotions, like stress and sadness” is the most effective ...