by FosterTalk Admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
The Department for Education (DfE) have produced a toolkit to help support children and family social workers with attendance conversations in schools and other education settings in England. The toolkit, available on the Skills for Care website, includes a range of...
by FosterTalk Admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
An article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) discusses the impact of lockdown on children and young people’s health. Findings from a snap survey of more than 4,000 paediatricians across the UK and Ireland at the end of April 2020 show that 32% of 752...
by FosterTalk Admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Children’s Commissioners’ Offices for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have released a podcast in which children from across the UK asked government scientists their questions about the coronavirus pandemic. Find out more...
by FosterTalk Admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Ofsted is set to assess local authorities on the impact of controversial exemptions to children’s social care legislation on services during the Covid-19 pandemic as so-called assurance visits resume in September. Find out more...
by FosterTalk Admin | Aug 18, 2020 | News
A-level and GCSE students in England will be given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm, after a government U-turn. It follows uproar after about 40% of A-level results were downgraded by exams regulator Ofqual, which used a formula based...
