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BASW responds to allegations of targeting foreign families for adoption

Baby Peter five years on – government must strengthen child protection services not diminish them

Resource implications cannot be ignored after MPs express safeguarding fears for older children

Corporate parenting should be a job for life

First UK guidelines for journalists reporting on child abuse launched

Gove right not to blame individuals or care system but removing more children from home is no panacea

BASW: Protect children from ‘currency of sex’

MP inquiry hears how adoption targets will lead to rushed assessments and increased risks to children

MPs hear how social workers struggle with backlogs akin to "M25 at rush hour"

BASW: Profiteering private firms won’t save under-funded LA social services