Swimming lessons backlog revealed
Young children are waiting for up to two years for swimming lessons at public pools in parts of Scotland, it emerges.
Film shows children ‘radicalised’
Counter-terrorism police say their discovery of a film of children being encouraged to hold guns is evidence of attempts to radicalise youngsters.
Exhibition celebrates 100 years of job centres
Winston Churchill was behind the first labour exchanges, which opened on 1 February 1910, and a new exhibition in Hackney, London, celebrates their historyThere were just 62 labour exchanges when they were first introduced on 1 February, 1910. Then, children left school at 12 and domestic service was the most common occupation. Jobs for a [...]
Children kept in care to save adoption cost
Report blames misguided local authorities for sidelining adoption agenciesMore than 1,000 children are trapped in England’s care system because local authorities wrongly believe that seeking the help of the voluntary sector to recruit adoptive parents is more expensive than trying to place children themselves, according to a report published tomorrow.Local authorities are also deliberately delaying [...]
Life at the extremes of the wealth divide
National Equality Panel’s analysis shows the richest 10% is more than 100 times better off than the poorest 10%In many ways the Renton and the Green families have plenty in common – these are two busy, noisy, happy households, each with three children. In both families, the two older children are already in their early [...]
Father’s shock at toddler murders
The father of two children found dead in holdalls in the boot of a car says he is unable to understand their “cruel” murders.
Family wins £100k for detention ordeal
Bolivian asylum seekers were falsely imprisoned and children traumatised after being held at centreA refugee has won a settlement of £100,000 from the Home Office after it admitted falsely imprisoning her and her children at an immigration detention centre.Carmen Quiroga, originally from Bolivia, spent 42 days at Oakington detention centre in Cambridgeshire with her son [...]
Father of murdered children ‘warned police’
Detectives prepare to interview Fiona Donnison after bodies of Harry, three, and Elise, two, were found in car bootDetectives are preparing to interview a mother over the murder of her two children amid reports that her estranged husband had told police he feared for their safety in her care.Fiona Donnison, 43, was arrested on Wednesday [...]
Doubts raised over Lady in the Lake murder conviction
Convicted killer Gordon Park, found dead in his cell this week, may have been victim of a miscarriage of justiceA prisoner found dead in his cell this week with a ligature around his neck may have been the victim of a miscarriage of justice.Gordon Park, convicted of killing his wife, Carol, died in prison on [...]
MMR scare doctor ‘irresponsible’
Doctor’s research triggered a furore and was direct cause of slump in take-up of MMR, which has led to outbreaks of measles in some parts of the countryAndrew Wakefield, the doctor who claimed to have discovered a link between measles virus, bowel diseases and autism and thereby sparked widespread fear of the combined MMR jab, [...]