by FosterTalk Admin | Jan 11, 2022 | News
The Scottish Government plans to make it easier for English and Welsh councils to transfer vulnerable children in their care to facilities north of the border. Holyrood said the current system for placing children with deprivation of liberty orders in Scotland was...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jan 11, 2022 | News
On 13 December 2021 Amanda Spielman responded to a letter from the Secretary of State for Education that asked Ofsted to register and inspect providers of supported accommodation for young people. The Chief Inspector confirmed that Ofsted would develop and implement a...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jan 6, 2022 | News
Rises in child poverty fuelled by benefit cuts was associated with more than 10,000 more children being taken into care between 2015 and 2020, a new study has estimated. The research, which is currently being peer-reviewed, suggests 10,356 more children living in...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jan 6, 2022 | News
Thanet residents Carol and Derek Moody have been awarded MBEs in the 2022 New Year Honours list for their services to foster care. For the couple – who provide foster care for disabled children through The Caldecott Foundation – the honour comes...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 20, 2021 | News
The latest findings from Ofsted, which has published three separate investigations into how Covid-19 continues to impact on children and students’ learning and personal development and the approaches education providers are using to help them catch up, found low...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 20, 2021 | News
The government’s national review into the circumstances behind Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’s murder will report by May next year and recommend improvements to local and national child safeguarding practice. Annie Hudson, chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice...
