Skip to main content
  1. Home
Parenting, childcare and children's services

News and communications

Skip to results

841 results

Skip to results
841 results sorted by Updated (newest)
  • Measures to improve adoption and fostering

    A consultation into how the process for assessing prospective adoptors and foster carers can be speeded up, and how the bureaucracy that currently makes the process more difficult can be removed.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Tips to tackle the back to school blues

    Text the school nurse for help and advice

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Action plan to stop child abuse in the name of faith or belief

    Ritual child abuse and neglect is being hidden, misunderstood and going unreported. The Department for Education and many stakeholders have drawn up an action plan to identify children at risk and protect them.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Flu vaccination programme extended to all children

    Health Secretary Andrew Lansley will today accept recommendations from UK immunisation experts to extend the flu vaccination programme to all children.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Appointment of the Family Justice Board chair

    Details of the government's plans to strengthen the family justice system.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Call for views: birth-parent contact and siblings in care

    Details of a proposed change in the law to help place children at the heart of the care and adoption system.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • A major step forward for children's inspections

    Proposals for a multi-agency inspection for the protection of children and a separate inspection for looked after children and care leavers.

    • Updated:
  • Tim Loughton sets challenge at ADCS conference

    The Children's Minister challenges Directors of Children's Services to improve standards of residential care for vulnerable children.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • More babies in care to receive a stable home more swiftly

    The prime minister today announces plans to speed up the transition from fostering to adoption.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Urgent reforms to protect children in residential care from sexual exploitation

    Details of a push to combat sexual exploitation of children in care.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New parents get more support from health visitors in the home and community

    Families around the country will receive a more personalised service from their local health visiting teams thanks to expansion of the programme which aims to give new parents personalised support in their homes and communit…

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Health visitors early implementer sites rolled out

    New parents around the country are to receive more support from health visitors in the home and community.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Future of free nursery milk secured

    Plans to secure the future of a fair and cost effective way to offer free milk to all nurserychildren was set out today by Public Health Minister Anne Milton as she launched a consultation on how the scheme operates.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Children's Minister Tim Loughton writes to The Times

    Children's Minister Tim Loughton has today written to The Times on shared parenting.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Social Work Reform Board progress report published today

    Findings in a new report suggest that social workers are more confident and more focused on improving outcomes for the most vulnerable.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bureaucracy axed to put vulnerable children first

    Plans for the overhaul of the child protection system, axing hundreds of pages of manuals and replacing them with precise guidance.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Teather: parents should have a greater say in their children’s centre

    Children's Minister Sarah Teather talks about getting parents involved in early education services.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Biggest overhaul to child performance regulations in over 40 years

    Outdated and confusing child performance rules are to be overhauled, under sweeping changes published today by Children’s Minister Tim Loughton.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Top tips for when you’re expecting!

    Campaign joins forces with new Hollywood film to support healthier starts for mother and baby Hollywood blockbuster ‘What to Expect When You…

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Start4Life partners Hollywood film to support healthier pregnancies

    The latest phase of the Start4Life campaign is launched today with cinema advertising and a partnership with the Hollywood film ‘What to expect…

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government