The government has launched a consultation on plans to reform weddings law in England and Wales, aiming to create a more ...

Children’s social care should place greater emphasis on supporting children to return safely to their families, according to ...

Mário Barroso, Head of R&D and Method Development at AlphaBiolabs, examines the forensic science underpinning hair drug ...

An interim arrangement has been introduced to address difficulties accessing legal aid for decision hearings in child-focused ...

Children in youth custody will benefit from strengthened safeguarding arrangements under a package of reforms announced by ...

According to ADCS, the care system must move beyond traditional binary approaches to care and instead respond more ...

Children with a parent in prison will be identified earlier and connected with support services under a new government pilot ...

The Department for Education has published the 2026 edition of Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE), with the updated ...

Refuge has reported a significant increase in referrals involving technology-facilitated and economic abuse, with frontline ...

In this article, Baljinder Bath, family law barrister at 4PB, evaluates the Government's approach to supporting local authorities in their use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other digital ...

Rebecca Dziobon, Beth Bell and Beth Mason, Penningtons Manches Cooper In this article, Rebecca Dziobon, Beth Mason and Beth Bell examine the opportunities and risks of generative AI for family lawyers ...

The author revisits the moral obligation to care for children in the context of the current interest in kinship care arrangements. Briefly noting the argument that parents do have such a moral ...