January 2001 stories

I'm on Cloud Nine, says winner Avril
Avril's winning entry
Twins: Legal action by birth father
Does Plymouth have the sickliest social services staff in Britain?
TV drama series seeks help on overseas adoption plot
Bogus social worker strikes again
Abusers are infiltrating top child care posts, claim police
County to close special schools?
Pupils 'should take surfing test'
'Parents go without to kit out kids'
Twins: Allens bid to overturn adoption
Mums to be paid to stay at home?
Foster girl up for award
£2m foster appeal misses target
Improvements for carers praised
Using bugs to beat ear infections
Action needed to retain carers
Could you help Barbardo's?
1,700 attacks on social workers
New respite centre for Hampshire
New book on working in care system
Inmates learn how to be a good dad
Got a question about adoption?
'My adopted son may have inherited fatal disease'
Sweeter than sugar
Rising care costs leave councils £205m in the red
NSPCC calls for targets to bring more child killers to book
Find out about foster kids' rights
Bigger babies are brighter
Safety watchdogs on the button
Twins: US father set to challenge Kilshaw adoption order
The cot-com revolution
Scores apply for China sponsorship
Bullying is kids' greatest misery
Foster carer checks raise concern
Jury can't decide on abuse charges
Council bid to recruit social workers
Spotlight to fall on social services
Twins' birth dad granted custody
'We adopted three kids from US'
King arrested again
The Sun says sorry to Barnardo's
83% of home staff are unqualified
Inspectors worried about services
'Teens to work' scheme extended
Respite carers sought
Super carer nominated for award
Internet twins to stay in care
Brothers need secure, loving family
'We won struggle to adopt abroad'
'Our adoptions are above average'
Anna death: who was to blame?
Councillor slams Anna failures
Bid to cut attacks on social workers
Care worker cleared of abuse
Job loss fears spark staff exodus
'We may never see twins again'
Crackdown on Web 'will not work'
Jenny launches new adoption HQ
2,500 in paedophile protest
90% of child doctors are attacked
Bid to foster faith in MMR jab
Hunt for teacher of the year
Discipline, love and touch of reverse psychology saw adoptive couple through the hard times
Top job for Anna social work chief
High Court to decide twins' fate
'We could not have adopted without the help of the Web'
Reporter offered child for sale
Anna inquiry boss under fire
MPs praise the NSPCC
Internet babies taken into care
Net baby couple go into hiding
Kilshaws called in ghostbusters
Baby story brings rush of inquiries
MPs attack adoption omission
'Don't forget grandparents'
Social worker quits in home scandal
Abuse case man bares his chest
Blair condemns adoption scandal
Selling babies can never be right
Mum storms out of TV interview
PM pledges speedy reforms
Child porn web smashed in raids
Ex-care worker denies abuse
Get informed on adoption
Net adoption couple face inquiry
Could you be on adoption panel?
Mounting calls for commissioner
Fears for 14 more 'at risk' children
Abandoned baby is in care
Children's home to be demolished
Anna: Four more questioned
Transatlantic reunion for twins
Government 'tax' on volunteers
Tragic Anna: Evil lovers jailed
Anna: Betrayed and tortured
Timetable of an horrific death
'Truly unimaginable' abuse - judge
'We've lost our beloved daughter'
How Anna came to England
The two who could have saved her
Facing disciplinary action
Appalled Milburn orders inquiry
Ally star Calista adopts baby boy
Mummy McBeal? Only in America
New hope from space for dyslexics
Nurses have fears over MMR jab
Entries flood in for China trek
Action plan for social services
Mothercare recalls faulty wands
Child web porn ring admit charges
'We just try to do our best'
Tougher penalties for sex abusers
Police dig for 'children's bodies'
Movie centres on childhood murder
Caring in a crisis
Hackney suspends care worker
Free computers for foster children
Do you foster a friend's child?
Jury still out on Anna's death
Parents flock to jab alternative
New champion for disabled kids
Care worker remanded
50-year search for 'stolen identity'
Hundreds of children at risk
BBC seeks China adoptive family
'I heard boys screaming'
Surviving child abuse 'shame'
Go with the Flo...
New fears over measles vaccine
Actress to open new adoption unit
Brother and sister seek affectionate and stable family
'Abuse ruined my childhood'
Police investigate monks
Abuse inquiries set to top 100
25% of parents lose their rag daily
Social workers to give evidence
Homer blamed for making kids fat
United stand to tackle abuse
Pledges flood in to help children
New bid to raise exam passes
Adoption movie on tonight
Have you time and space to care?
More support set for foster carers
More children getting too fat
Teenagers to tell MPs about care
Prison officer suspended
Home sacked care worker for whistleblowing - claim
Teens honoured for exam success
Don't smack, say protection bosses
I was frightened, alleged abuse victim tells jury
Mum has order made against her
'My brother is Guy Ritchie'
Fears over measles epidemic
Woman claims abuse ordeal
Meningitis babies more likely to be expelled from school
Children's law unit set up
Aunts take the agony out talking to kids about drugs
New inter-network to help children
'It's a combination of loving kids and wanting to help'
Urgent plea for more adopters
Kids are lying - home chief
'Fostering is the best thing I've ever done' 'Failings led to girl's hideous death'
Plea to help young abuse victims
Mum seen abandoning baby
Foster honour for 'Auntie Ann'
MBE for foster supermum
Father abused child in care
Putting a stamp on rights
Apathy won't kill fundraiser trek
River body missing priest?
New book on medical dilemmas
Missing mum turns herself in