A new dedicated team of experts from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre will strengthen and lead the UK's ability to respond to missing children from 1st July, Home Office Minister James Brokenshire has announced.
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The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, has released an Issue Paper on the human rights perspective of adoption of children, calling for member states to ensure a better protection of children in the adoption process. According to the Commissioner, the realities of adoption still vary widely among European countries, in spite of international agreements, giving raise to serious human rights concerns.
The Child Support Agency (CSA) ended the financial year with another quarter of stable performance.
A new Convention has been signed by the EU that sets up a worldwide system for recovering child support and other family maintenance payments.
A number of women's and parenting charities have expressed their concerns over proposed changes to the child maintenance system in a letter to Theresa May, the Minister for women and equalities, reports the Guardian. The letter calls for the government to reconsider these proposals, warning that they are likely to unfairly affect single mothers.
One in 26 looked after children contact ChildLine about failings and weaknesses in the care system, a new ChildLine report has revealed.