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Children's court service faces inquiry over post-Baby Peter response
Wednesday, 28 July 2010

MPs call for investigation after report raises serious concerns about Cafcass’s ability to handle the rise in workload following the death of Baby Peter

Khyra Ishaq review reveals how mother intimidated professionals
Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Angela Gordon threatened violence and legal action, and accused staff of racism or harassment

From the archive 26 July 1978: Test tube mother has girl
Monday, 26 July 2010

Originally published in the Guardian on 26 July 1978

Yarl's Wood itself is the moral outrage | Phil Shiner and Daniel Carey
Friday, 23 July 2010

Closing the family wing is a step forward, but the government must admit its detention policy breaches human rights

NHS reports fall in drug, tobacco and alcohol use among schoolchildren
Thursday, 22 July 2010

Biggest decline in smoking, where number of 11- to 15-year-olds who had smoked has fallen to 29%, from 54% in 1982

How petty-minded will this coalition be? Here is the test | Zoe Williams
Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Child trust funds helped some of the poorest save. Scrapping their whole infrastructure would be an act of hooliganism

Where domestic smoke and gender are killers | Claire Melamed
Tuesday, 20 July 2010

The biggest cause of death in low-income countries affects mostly women and is solvable. So why are we ignoring it?

Revealed: brutal guide to punishing jailed youths
Sunday, 18 July 2010

• ‘Drive fingers into groin’, says prison service manual
• Disclosures follow parents’ freedom of information fight

Parents of obese children may be guilty of neglect
Friday, 16 July 2010

Child health experts say ‘parental failure’ over diet and exercise becomes a child protection issue

Child trafficking petition urges guardianship system for victims
Thursday, 15 July 2010

Campaigners call on government to introduce new strategy after research shows more than half of victims go missing from care