During Children's Mental Health Week, Emily Aklan says the unnecessary and unregulated physical restraining of children is a shocking practice that must be addressed
A private children's home in Birmingham housing four children with trauma and complex needs has been condemned as inadequate by Ofsted.
The home run by DMR Services was found to have 'serious and widespread failures that mean children are not protected or their welfare is not promoted or safeguarded'.
Pressures on families were seen as contextual and not of people's own making during the pandemic. The same perspective needed to apply now as food and fuel insecurity rises, expert says.