[In state’s child protection statute and/or where “abuse and neglect” and/or “best interests of the child” are defined, add] A parent has the fundamental right to direct the care and upbringing of the ...

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From a report on improving the asylum system for ...

Working with adolescents is an area of practice which I thoroughly enjoy but where I can feel constrained. I believe there is a different dynamic to working with adolescents compared to working with ...

Child protection services personnel respond to some 3 million reports of maltreatment per year, including child neglect and physical or sexual abuse. Although families are dealing with a variety of ...

The education regulator praised the authority for its improvements 'gaining traction', but made criticism over its ...