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

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

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

This article examines the legal challenges transgender parents face in being recognised as legal parents under English law. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 allows transgender people to legally change ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...