by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 11, 2020 | News
Children’s rights remain “worryingly low” on the political agenda in England, a coalition of charities supporting vulnerable young people have warned ahead of Human Rights Day (December 10). A new report, led by the Children’s Rights Alliance...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 11, 2020 | News
A former head teacher and founder of a multi academy schools trust has been named as the government’s preferred choice to be the next children’s commissioner for England. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced today that Dame Rachel de Souza is his...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 11, 2020 | News
The “broken system” within children’s social care must be rebuilt following decades of cuts to local authority funding, Labour’s shadow minister for children and early years has said. Speaking at the Early Intervention Foundation’s...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 7, 2020 | News
The regulations, which previously applied during the second national lockdown in November and the regional tier system that preceded it, allowed meetings between children in care and potential adopters but no such exemption applied to potential kinship carers, such as...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 7, 2020 | News
Article 39 has published a report sharing children and young people’s views and experiences of mental health hospitals in England, as told to their advocates. The report finds that children are being kept in hospital for too long, often many miles from home, and...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 7, 2020 | News
The House of Commons Library has published a briefing setting out the system of support for children and young people in England aged 0-25 with special educational needs (SEN). The briefing provides an overview of the system introduced by the Children and Families Act...
