Children Adopted from Care: 2019-20

The Northern Ireland Department of Health has published statistical information on children adopted from care in Northern Ireland during the year ending 31 March 2020. The statistics show that:111 children were adopted from care during the year ending 31 March 2020,...

Kinship Care: State of the Nation 2020

Grandparents Plus has launched its State of the Nation Report 2020, which examines how kinship carers feel their role affects their lives and the lives of the children they look after, and considers the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on kinship families. The...

Launch of Care Review Imminent

Children & Young People Now reports that, in a speech made to the National Adult’s and Children’s Services Conference, Children’s Minister Vicky Ford, stated that the wide-ranging Children’s Social Care Review would begin imminently. Find...