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If there was a God Rachel Wardell, Surrey’s children’s social services boss, would already have been sacked. She’d also have ...

Sara Sharif's evil father Urfan Sharif had faced a litany of horrifying child abuse allegations in the years leading up to ...

This is part of a series of articles, each of which will take an in-depth look at the failing institutions, infrastructure ...

Concerns were raised about Sara Sharif’s care within a week of her birth in 2013, with her parents known to social services ...

Romania and Bulgaria will become full members of the Schengen Area that allows free movement of 420 million people between 29 ...

England's child protection watchdog warns that permission to remove children from class for homeschooling should never be ...

More than half of incidents involving the death or serious harm of a child under five involved a parent or relevant adult with a mental health condition (57%), while 16% of children died by suicide – ...

An alleged gunman who killed a 12-year-old Israeli boy and injured three others in the West Bank on Wednesday night has ...

Sara’s father Urfan Sharif and stepmother Beinash Batool were found guilty of murder while her uncle Faisal Malik was guilty of allowing the death.

A police officer in Pakistan has described using “hard tactics” to find Sara Sharif’s fugitive family, while a relative said they hid in corn fields when police raided his home during the four-week ...

Sara Sharif dreamed of being a fairytale princess, even as the reality of her Cinderella story in the leafy town of Woking was a nightmare from which she would never escape. The 10-year-old had gone ...