Children

One in five children  may not get a Christmas present this year as a fifth of parents say they can’t afford to buy gifts without getting into debt, according to a new survey. 

Siblings who were abruptly removed from a foster family that wanted to adopt them, a vulnerable teen who was given a tent to live in and a child who was denied the chance to say goodbye to his dying mother all feature in a ‘startling’ report into council decisions about children in care.