Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter

It is widely accepted to be one of the biggest scandals in the history of the NHS – patients given contaminated blood.

We spoke to Josh MacAlister, Chair of Children’s Social Care Review, and Fiona Venner – a Leeds City councillor with responsibility for children and families.

We spoke to Claire Coutinho, Minister for Childrens, Families and Wellbeing, and started by asking her how the proposed reforms would change children’s lives.

The government has set out its vision for the children’s social care system, which it says will have “love and stable relationships” at its heart. Its ambition for earlier intervention to help families stay together was welcomed by campaigners, but there’s widespread disappointment at the amount of money on offer – £200 million over two…

The government has ordered an independent inquiry into the Omagh bombing, which killed 29 people – including a woman pregnant with twins. The 200 kilo bomb, placed by the Real IRA, went off in a street full of people shopping on a Saturday in August 1998. Relatives of the victims have campaigned for years for…

Labour has demanded an independent investigation into claims that Probation staff are under “pressure” to lower the risk rating of offenders following an exclusive report on our programme.

Serious offenders released into the community enter a legal grey area. 

Wednesday is shaping up to be the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade. 

We spoke to Donna Ockenden, who is leading a review into maternity care at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and I began by getting her reaction to the fine.

We spoke to Chris Law who spent much of his childhood in care.

One of the key recommendations from the “once in a generation” review into children’s care has already been rejected.

We spoke to Nogah Ofer, solicitor at the Centre for Women’s Justice and Shabnam Chaudhri, a former Detective Superintendent for the Metropolitan Police who says her career there was a 30 year struggle with racism.

There’s been a cautious welcome from farmers and environmentalists for the latest phase of government plans to boost sustainable farming and restore nature.

We spoke to Katherine Sacks-Jones, the Chief Executive of Become, a charity for care leavers and children in care; and Vava Tampa who is a frontline social worker and chair of the British Association of Social Workers.

The author of a landmark report into children’s social care in England has told this programme the government must commit to radical reform of the whole system – a system failing some of the most vulnerable children in care.