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‘After living in 12 places in six years, I finally found a care home that never gave up on me’

by Catherine Turner | Dec 30, 2022 | News

Sixteen-year-old Rhys Anderson is a fantastic talker. Sitting on the sofa in his living room, he’s waxing lyrical about his friends, the fire pit he helped build over summer, how he knows bits of “pretty much every language there is” (“well, English, Welsh and...

Care review: Children and young people’s views – England

by Catherine Turner | Dec 22, 2022 | News

Coram Voice and National Youth Advocacy Service have published a report on the views of care-experienced children and young people on recommendations set out in the independent review of children’s social care. The report summarises feedback from over 80...

Delays to mental health treatment in England ‘putting more children in care’

by Catherine Turner | Dec 14, 2022 | News

Increasing numbers of emotionally troubled children have been taken into care while waiting long periods for NHS treatment because their condition deteriorated to the point where their parents could no longer cope with their behaviour, child protection bosses have...

Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board to close this month

by Catherine Turner | Dec 7, 2022 | News

DfE says it is considering the best structures to deliver on the recommendations of the care review, which called for greater focus on kinship carers not covered by board’s remit. The Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board (ASGLB) will close this...

Julie Morgan: We are eliminating profit from the care of looked after children

by Catherine Turner | Dec 7, 2022 | News

Encouraging more people to become foster parents is a crucial part of the Welsh government’s plans, writes the deputy minister for social services in the Welsh government. Our Programme for Government sets out our vision to transform children’s services in Wales. Our...

One in eight fostering households quit last year, finds Ofsted

by Catherine Turner | Nov 28, 2022 | News

Foster carer shortages are deepening in England with one in eight fostering households having quit, and more leaving than joining, over the past year. Ofsted’s latest fostering statistics, released earlier this month, showed that in 2021-22, 5,435 mainstream fostering...
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