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  • Fostering services need to reach out to wider range of carers

    The care system is facing major challenges as the number of looked after children rises and retiring foster carers are not replaced fast enough, Children’s Minister Tim Loughton will warn tonight.

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

  • Munro: Child protection reforms welcomed but pace needs to be accelerated

    Professor Eileen Munro: urgent cultural change in the child protection system now underway.

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

  • Prime Minister announces support for families

    Exciting new services to give mums and dads the support they need to do the best for their children were launched today by the Prime Minister…

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

  • NHS pledges more support for women with postnatal depression

    Women who have postnatal depression or who have suffered a miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of a baby will get more support from the NHS…

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

  • Government pledges support for women with postnatal depression and improvements to maternity care

    Women who have postnatal depression and women who have suffered a miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of a baby will get more support from …

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

  • Tim Loughton at the Safe and Sound National Conference

    Children's Minister Tim Loughton talks about tackling child sexual exploitation at the 5th Safe and Sound National conference at The British Library.

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

  • Tim Loughton addresses Community Care Live

    The Children's Minister speaks to social workers at the Community Care Live conference about the Government's progress in reforming child protection, fostering, adoption, the care system and the social work profess…

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

  • Ending the Ofsted annual children’s services assessment

    If passed, new legislation will mean that local authority children’s services will no longer have to be assessed by Ofsted.

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

  • Minister Tim Loughton writes to 'The Independent'

    Letter from Minister Tim Loughton in response to an article by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on the care system published in 'The Independent' on Monday 30 April 2012.

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

  • Non-commercial partners needed to support healthy pregnancy marketing campaign

    The Department of Health is developing the next phase of the Start4Life social marketing programme with a view to launching a new campaign later…

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

  • Information requirements for child health information systems

    Published today, this document sets out the information requirements for the delivery of child health services as part of the future health …

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

  • 430,000 babies to be screened for five extra rare conditions in newborn screening pilot

    More than 400,000 babies will be screened for debilitating, rare inherited conditions as part of a ground-breaking pilot to see if more rare illnesses can be identified early on and get babies the best treatment possible so …

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

  • Locations of the Family Nurse Partnership Programme (FNP) in England.

    The attached map shows locations of FNP sites in England. The Family Nurse Partnership is a licensed, preventative programme for vulnerable…

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

  • First health visitor implementation progress report published

    The first quarterly progress report setting out progress on key areas of the Health Visitor Implementation programme has been published today.

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

  • Cafcass board members appointed

    Five appointments have been made to the board of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass).

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

  • Regulation of foods for young children to be simplified

    The Department is publishing responses received to the public consultation, which ended on 30 September 2011, to gather views of interested …

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

  • New health maps to drive children’s health improvements

    - New Atlas of Variation for Children’s Services shines a light on differences in care -   The differences in health services for children…

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

  • Professor Nutbrown’s interim report on early education and childcare qualifications

    Professor Cathy Nutbrown publishes an interim report which explores how to help people working in the early years to improve their skills, knowledge and development.

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

  • Pupils want to text their school nurse

    New plan launched to help pupils get more help from the school nurse Young people could soon be texting their school nurses for appointments…

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

  • Government sets out measures to speed up adoptions and give vulnerable children loving homes

    New legislation will impose duties on local authorities to reduce delays for adoptions.

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