Cost Update for Child Abduction and Wardship. When reviewing current costs limitation for Child Abduction and Wardship it has ...

Funding for preventive services doubled to over half a billion pounds to drive restoration in family and parenting support ...

The Kinship Young Champions’ film project funded by BBC Children in Need highlights the 141,000 children in kinship care in ...

The survey revealed 94% of participants believe emotional abuse in childhood can have a lasting psychological effect well into adulthood. We’re releasing this data as part of our Listen up, Speak up ...

HMCTS recently updated their guidance on ‘Sharing Information outside of court in family proceedings’. Sharing information about a case is sometimes called ‘disclosure of information’ or ...

This article seeks to explore the difficulties that are emerging with both the identification of vulnerable parties and their ability to engage within proceedings. Particularly within Public Law ...

The winners of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 were announced in a glittering awards ceremony on Thursday 13 March at a central London venue by host Tony Robinson. The full list of shortlisted ...

This article explores the principles of care for children deprived of their liberty including the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory’s recent recommendations on the care provision for children who ...

In this article Shiva Ancliffe KC and Caroline Croft set out the law in relation to the designation of care and supervision orders, highlighting the relevant statutory provisions and extracting the ...