by FosterTalk Admin | Mar 17, 2021 | News
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a study of children’s social care provision in England, Scotland and Wales to establish why a lack of availability and increasing costs could be leading to the needs of children in care not being met. The...
by FosterTalk Admin | Mar 16, 2021 | Blog
JACKIE EDWARDS, PROFESSIONAL ADVISOR AT FOSTERTALK SHARES HER STORY FOR WORLD SOCIAL WORK DAY. I started my social work career in 1988, which seems very long ago! On world social work day I have been reflecting on the way that social work has changed over the past 30...
by FosterTalk Admin | Mar 16, 2021 | News
Dame Rachel De Souza has vowed to “take responsibility for the future of children” as she takes on the role of children’s commissioner for England. Stepping up for her six-year tenure as children’s tsar on1 March, De Souza, a former head...
by FosterTalk Admin | Mar 16, 2021 | News
A council, charity and private sector partnership has launched to improve innovation, including the use of technology, in children’s social care. The partnership is also gathering examples of innovative work already taking place to improve the lives of...
by FosterTalk Admin | Mar 16, 2021 | News
Campaigners have praised a move to bring forward plans to increase housing benefits for homeless young people and care leavers. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that from June 2021 care leavers under the age of 25 and 16- to 24-year-olds who...
