Who cares after young people leave care?
“They come from a system where they are supposed to be looked after and it feels like they leave the system and they just get left and thrown away.”
Parents with children at a secondary school which has been largely closed for almost a month because of unsafe concrete have been holding a protest during a visit from the schools minister.
Children armed themselves with homemade weapons for protection at a young offenders institution in Kent where violence was rife – a damning report has revealed.
Children as young as nine are being groomed and bombarded with sexually explicit messages on popular social media app Musical.ly and streaming site Lively.
Channel 4 News can reveal tonight the numbers of children who go missing every year from the care system after seeking asylum or being trafficked. For 19 year old Monique (not her real name), who was trafficked into the UK at 11, it was years before she got the help she needed.
“They come from a system where they are supposed to be looked after and it feels like they leave the system and they just get left and thrown away.”
It costs more to keep a child in care than the fees for Eton, but the average care leaver still faces poor educational achievement and higher rates of mental health issues or imprisonment.
8,000 children under the age of 18 have been accused of sexually abusing another child over the past two years, offences including serious sexual assault and rape.
An “anxious” judge releases a previously private judgement into the case of two grandparents fighting to prevent their granddaughter from being adopted, after a Channel 4 News legal application.
Even before the guilty verdict was released, a serious case review into the death of Hamzah Khan was announced. But with 200 launched a year, all with similar findings, how long before something changes?
Judging comprehensives against fee-paying selective schools is not comparing like with like, as the Chief Inspector should know only too well.
With one youth worker telling Channel 4 News that boys as young as 11 ask him if it is OK to strangle a girl while having sex, is it time to tackle the issue of children and pornography head-on?
From vouchers to credits, FactCheck digs in to the latest proposals from the government on childcare.