children

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Features

Bristol’s children in care face growing shortage of foster homes

As the number of children needing care rises, a shortage of foster homes is pushing the council towards expensive residential placements, long-distance moves and unregistered accommodation

Anna Zuurmond

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Kerri Matthews – what happens to families when parents go to prison?

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Photography

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Photo essay: Kitchen Table Photo Club

Esther May Campbell and Chiz Williams
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Hope Is Around The Corner

If you terrorise children, we have nothing in common

Following yet another anti-migrant hotel protest, Nikesh considers whether it’s even possible to engage with the other side

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla
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Edition 42

Revealed: How the arms industry is targeting Bristol’s secondary schools

Michal Grant
Michal Grant
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Hope Is Around The Corner

When we’re deported, will mum be allowed to visit?

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Features

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‘If you see it, you can be it’: The cricket club creating a more inclusive game

Nationally, less than one percent of recreational cricket players come from African Caribbean backgrounds. The Cable meets the local cricket club with a mission to change that

Ollie Goodwin

Features

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Meet the Bristol author helping women write their way through early motherhood

Juggling early motherhood with a writing career can be challenging. Bristol author Emylia Hall, founder of Mothership, has helped hundreds of creative mums thrive.

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with barrister Lucy Reed, on opening the secretive family courts to scrutiny

The family courts, which make orders for children to be taken into care, have long been a hidden world, but that's now changing. Neil talks to barrister and transparency campaigner Lucy about why this matters, and how the system needs to change.

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Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Features

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Project helping new dads cope with parenthood faces uncertain future

Dad Matters, set up in 2024, has been supporting men across Bristol to navigate the tricky challenges of early fatherhood – but the council is now working out if it can continue funding the service.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Cable Community News

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Editorial: Why the Cable will be shining a light on child imprisonment

The Cable's investigations lead introduces our new long-term reporting strategy that puts impact at its heart – starting with a deep-dive on child prisons and exclusion from society.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Area in Focus

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South Bristol’s new youth centre is technically in Knowle West. Can it deliver for kids from Hartcliffe too?

A huge Youth Zone, part of a national network, will be opening in 2026 by the Imperial Retail Park. But is it what this side of the city needs? And will young people feel welcome, no matter what postcode they live in?

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers
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