by FosterTalk Admin | Oct 20, 2020 | News
The Department for Education (DfE) has published information to help local authority children’s services and schools in England prepare for the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020. Read the guidance for local authorities here...
by FosterTalk Admin | Oct 20, 2020 | News
The Northern Ireland Executive has announced that half term holiday break for schools and colleges will be extended to a two-week break to run from 19th to 30th October. Separately the BBC reports that the number of secondary schools in England sending home pupils...
by FosterTalk Admin | Oct 20, 2020 | News
The House of Commons Library has published a briefing on gang associated girls, ahead of a Westminster Hall debate on the subject which took place on 6 October 2020. The briefing looks at how many women and girls are involved in county lines and sexual exploitation....
by FosterTalk Admin | Oct 20, 2020 | News
The Guardian has published an article on the support received by grandparents and other relatives who are raising children. The article discusses: how more children left care through a special guardianship order than through adoption for the first time in 2019; the...
by FosterTalk Admin | Oct 20, 2020 | News
The Scottish has published a factsheet explaining changes to the law covering the physical punishment and discipline of children. The Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Act 2019 comes into force on 7 November and will remove the “reasonable...
by FosterTalk Admin | Oct 20, 2020 | News
Services for children and young people, including local authority support and early years provision, need an injection of funding to cope with new local lockdown restrictions, experts have said. The Department for Education’s most recent vulnerable children and...
