by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 8, 2021 | News
The number of children adopted from care fell to its lowest level in 21 years in 2020-21, Department for Education (DfE) figures show. Their number fell by 18% on the year to 2,870, the lowest total since 1999-2000. Delays in family court proceedings during Covid-19...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 8, 2021 | News
Councils should work together to tackle excess profit making in children’s social care rather than simply criticise it, the chair of the independent review of children’s social care in England has said. Speaking last week at the national children’s...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 8, 2021 | News
In a written statement to councils children and families minister Will Quince confirmed an uplift of 17 pence per hour in “the vast majority of areas” for places for three- and four-year-olds. Nine local authorities will not receive a rise to their funding...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 6, 2021 | News
The government has launched a national review into the circumstances behind Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’s murder and commissioned an urgent safeguarding inspection into agencies in his area. The national inquiry – led by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review...
by FosterTalk Admin | Nov 17, 2021 | News
England’s care system needs an “urgent boost to the number of foster carers” to avoid reaching “breaking point”. That was the warning from Ofsted as it released its annual fostering statistics last week, which showed there were...
by FosterTalk Admin | Nov 12, 2021 | News
The National Autistic Society’s new report has found that parents are facing exhausting and sometimes years-long battles to get support for their autistic children in school. The education system in England is simply not working for autistic children and we...
