by FosterTalk Admin | Jan 20, 2021 | News
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has released figures for reports of online child sexual abuse processed by the UK’s IWF. Figures show that: in 2020, IWF analysts processed 153,350 reports containing images and/or videos of children being sexually...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jan 20, 2021 | News
The Department for Education (DfE) has announced an independent review of children’s social care in England to be led by Josh MacAlister a former schoolteacher who founded the social work charity Frontline. The DfE is looking looking for people with experience...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jan 12, 2021 | News
The Welsh Government has published a report assessing the impact of coronavirus alert levels and restrictions on children’s rights, including their impact on a child’s right to be protected from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and bad treatment by...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jan 12, 2021 | News
The Children’s Commissioner for England has written to the Secretary of State for Education following the start of the national lockdown, to request further details on the Government’s plans to minimise learning loss during the national lockdown and...
by FosterTalk Admin | Jan 11, 2021 | News
Including devoting significant airtime to Education on BBC Two Reacting quickly to the news of UK schools moving to remote learning, the new offer from the BBC will ensure all children can access curriculum-based learning, even if they don’t have access to the...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 17, 2020 | News
The Race Disparity Unit (RDU) has published a new set of statistics covering adoption and looked-after children on the ‘Ethnicity facts and figures’ website, which brings together statistics collected by government departments about the experiences of the...