by FosterTalk Admin | Jun 8, 2022 | News
A council’s response to children at immediate risk of harm has “deteriorated” after senior leaders failed to speedily put in place extra funds to boost social work capacity, Ofsted has warned. A focused visit to Tameside in April, primarily looking at the council’s...
by FosterTalk Admin | May 25, 2022 | News
The Children’s Commissioner has written a blog in resposne. tothe independent review into children’s social care. ‘I wrote on Friday about the things I wanted to see included in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. This list is based on...
by FosterTalk Admin | May 23, 2022 | News
Children and Families Minister Will Quince addresses Parliament in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. With permission, Mr Speaker, I will now make a statement on how the Government is responding to the Independent Review of Children’s...
by FosterTalk Admin | May 23, 2022 | News
The long-awaited independent review of children’s social care has been published today (23/5/22). First announced in 2019, the aim of the review is to ‘build recommendations for how the system can be improved, continuing to feed in a wide range of views,...
by FosterTalk Admin | May 9, 2022 | News
A recent report has found that over half of carers subject to allegations did not receive independent support. Prior to this, in 2016, FosterTalk commissioned commissioned ‘The Impact of Unproven Allegations on Foster Carers’ research, published in 2016 by Gillian...
by FosterTalk Admin | Apr 29, 2022 | News
A children’s literacy charity has launched a campaign to raise £1 million to buy books for Ukrainian refugees arriving in the UK. Bookmark Reading, a literacy charity that provides volunteer-led reading support for children, aims to supply 5,000 welcome Book Boxes to...
