by FosterTalk Admin | Sep 8, 2020 | News
The Department for Education has extended a handful of controversial exemptions to children’s social care regulations until March 2021 following a public consultation. The extended relaxations of legislation around safeguards and protections to vulnerable...
by FosterTalk Admin | Sep 3, 2020 | News
Care leavers should be “at the front of the queue” for jobs offered through the government’s new £2bn Kickstart scheme, ministers have said. The scheme which launches today gives employers the opportunity to offer young people on Universal Credit...
by FosterTalk Admin | Sep 2, 2020 | News
Footballer Marcus Rashford has unveiled a new food poverty taskforce with the backing of major supermarkets in a bid to tackle rising food inequality. In an open letter to government, Rashford calls for longer-term solutions to stop increasing numbers of families...
by FosterTalk Admin | Sep 2, 2020 | News
The government has been urged to outline plans to tackle a predicted rise in referrals to children’s services departments as schools return this weekLatest government figures show that between April and June there was an 18 per cent drop in referrals to...
by FosterTalk Admin | Sep 2, 2020 | News
What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) is delighted to announce the 21 local authorities in England who will receive funding to place social workers in their schools to help reduce referral rates to children’s social care. The funding is part of an...
