Chris Mills Child Protection Blog

Southampton City Council Children’s Services Department has been found by an independent investigation to have fostered a ‘culture of fear’ ...

It is difficult to imagine an organisation less likely to succeed in delivering good quality children’s services than that recounted in a re...

Kenan Malik has written a very thought provoking article in today’s   Observer .  Looking at two recent tragedies - the Grenfell Tower...

It doesn’t take a lot of thought to conclude that there must have been a toxic culture of cover-up and denial in Nottinghamshire and the Ci...

No sooner had I lamented the tardiness of the Johnson government in appointing a children’s minister than one popped up! Mrs Kemi Baden...

Boris Johnson’s government reshuffle resulted in the person appointed children’s minister by Theresa May, Nadhim Zahawi, being moved to a ne...

I didn’t know whether to be amused or whether to be driven to despair when I read that researchers from the   What Works Centre for Children...