by FosterTalk Admin | Aug 12, 2022 | News
Ofsted has recently published a report entitled “Children’s social care 2022: recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic”. The report says: “The COVID-19 pandemic has put specific pressures on the children’s social care sector, and exacerbated existing...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jul 28, 2022 | News
The Department for Education has appointed its new ministers following a mass resignation of Conservative frontbenchers in response to Boris Johnson’s handling of the Chris Pincher affair. MP for Braintree James Cleverly has been appointed as Education...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jul 28, 2022 | News
The government has selected a sixth authority to trial its social care funding reforms, including the cap on care costs, before their full implementation next year. Oxfordshire council will join Blackpool, Cheshire East, the London Borough of Newham North Yorkshire...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jul 28, 2022 | News
Poet Lemn Sissay, with the help of London’s Foundling Museum, has gathered 59 athletes, artists, CEOs and others who, like him, spent part of their childhoods in care. The result is an inspiring photograph for young people in care today. The project is the brainchild...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jul 22, 2022 | News
Incoming minister Brendan Clarke-Smith says public is blind to practitoners’ role ‘behind the scenes’ in keeping children safe and empowering families t is a “national scandal” that social workers are “overlooked” because they “do their jobs so well”...