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Study into best help launches as research estimates 800,000 children were in an abusive home last year.

Four councils are taking part in a scheme aimed at ensuring parenting programmes can offer effective support to families.

Foundations has launched the Family Hubs Planning Framework to provide evidence-based information for local authorities.

Local authority and children's services leaders have welcomed a £600m government funding boost to relieve pressure for support services but say it "does not negate the need for a sufficient long term funding settlement for children".

Champions of asylum-seeking young people and anti-racist practice, respectively, recognised alongside chief social worker for children Isabelle Trowler

Good practice in family group conferences must not be diluted as the intervention gets rolled out across children's social care services

Children whose parents are referred to family drug and alcohol courts (FDACs) are more likely to be reunified with their families

Councils across the country are being urged to offer family group conferences (FGC) after a study found they reduce the likelihood of children going into care.

Study finds children whose families were referred to a family group conference were likely to go into care than other children

An organisation formed from the merger of What Works for Children’s Social Care and the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) has marked its launch with the publication of a five-year strategy.