Domestic abuse charity Refuge has reported a significant rise in cases involving the misuse of wearable technology and ...

A new parliamentary inquiry has found that the majority of adopted young people believe adoption is poorly understood by ...

Two Commons select committees have launched a joint inquiry into the Government’s newly announced Child Poverty Strategy, ...

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data (11 December 2025, ONS website, article, Drug misuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2025) confirms that drug use remains widespread, with ...

Teenagers with experience of foster, residential or kinship care are at substantially increased risk of serious mental health ...

Ashraf Osmani, 52, was sentenced to 15 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, after pleading guilty to two counts of carrying out conduct for the purpose of causing a child to enter into a ...

Children affected by domestic abuse are not being consistently recognised or supported as victims in their own right, despite clear statutory provisions to that effect, according to a new joint ...

The government has announced a wide-ranging consultation on children’s use of mobile phones and social media, alongside immediate measures to strengthen the enforcement of mobile phone bans in schools ...

The government has announced that it is to press ahead with reform of the law on getting married and is to follow the approach recommended by the Law Commission which moves from regulating buildings ...

This article analyses the Court of Appeal’s judgment of Re HMP on the application of the Open Justice Principle in the Family Justice System in light of the new rules on transparency and its wider ...

In this article, Francesca Massarella explores how an effective co-working policy between adult mental health services and children’s social care can create more positive outcomes for families ...

Marcus Dearle, Senior Partner at Miles Preston and immediate past Chair of the IBA’s Family Law Committee, is one of the UK’s leading advisers on high conflict, high profile family law disputes.