Children

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Child maintenance complaints waiting more than a year for investigations to start

Parents are having to wait more than a year for complaints against the embattled Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to be allocated to an investigator, the government has disclosed.

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Families to face eviction if children fail to inform on knife crime

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Schools out: children face ‘lost decade’ in education after the pandemic

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51,000 children dragged into poverty since 2015 in the North East, report shows

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Children’s care outsourcing linked to unstable out-of-area placements

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Boost to childcare payments marks first step in major expansion

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Government childcare plans will disproportionately benefit better-off families, report shows

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Children’s care outsourcing linked to unstable out-of-area placements – study

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Government names first areas to test children’s care reforms

The government has named Dorset, Lincolnshire and Wolverhampton as the first areas to be chosen to deliver the Families First for Children programme.