by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 17, 2020 | News
Research in Practice and TACT have published a report on a joint piece of research designed to explore the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown on young people in and leaving care, and their carers. The report summarises the findings from three online questionnaires...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 11, 2020 | News
Children’s rights remain “worryingly low” on the political agenda in England, a coalition of charities supporting vulnerable young people have warned ahead of Human Rights Day (December 10). A new report, led by the Children’s Rights Alliance...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 11, 2020 | News
A former head teacher and founder of a multi academy schools trust has been named as the government’s preferred choice to be the next children’s commissioner for England. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced today that Dame Rachel de Souza is his...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 11, 2020 | News
The “broken system” within children’s social care must be rebuilt following decades of cuts to local authority funding, Labour’s shadow minister for children and early years has said. Speaking at the Early Intervention Foundation’s...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 7, 2020 | News
The regulations, which previously applied during the second national lockdown in November and the regional tier system that preceded it, allowed meetings between children in care and potential adopters but no such exemption applied to potential kinship carers, such as...
