Children affected by domestic abuse are not being consistently recognised or supported as victims in their own right, despite clear statutory provisions to that effect, according to a new joint ...

The government has announced a wide-ranging consultation on children’s use of mobile phones and social media, alongside immediate measures to strengthen the enforcement of mobile phone bans in schools ...

Teenagers with experience of foster, residential or kinship care are at substantially increased risk of serious mental health ...

Ashraf Osmani, 52, was sentenced to 15 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, after pleading guilty to two counts of carrying out conduct for the purpose of causing a child to enter into a ...

This article analyses the Court of Appeal’s judgment of Re HMP on the application of the Open Justice Principle in the Family Justice System in light of the new rules on transparency and its wider ...

In this article, Francesca Massarella explores how an effective co-working policy between adult mental health services and children’s social care can create more positive outcomes for families ...

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The programme, unveiled by the Department for Education (DfE) on 16 January 2026, is intended to address long-standing ...

A new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has identified serious and persistent failures within England’s ...

It is not unusual for witnesses to give evidence from abroad in family cases. Do any procedural rules apply? If so, what are they? What practical problems might arise with witnesses giving evidence by ...

In this article, Christopher Hames KC, Mani Singh Basi, and Lucy Logan Green, barristers at specialist family law set 4PB, and Dr Sumi Ratnam, consultant forensic psychiatrist, discuss the complex ...

In the light of the Law Commission’s recently commenced project on Kinship Care, the author looks at some decisions of the Family Court which have involved prospective or current kinship carers. Such ...