The Department for Education has published the findings of an independent review exploring deaths among care experienced young adults in England. The review analysed all care leaver death notifications in...
Death rate three to four times higher than among general population blamed on isolation of those leaving care
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The charity Become has published a report on the experiences of girls in care placed far from their local area and support networks. The report highlights the voices of eight care-experienced young women in...
The Department for Education has published the findings of an independent review exploring deaths among care experienced young adults in England. The review analysed all care leaver death notifications in 2025, looking...
Death rate three to four times higher than among general population blamed on isolation of those leaving care
Read the full article on this link to The Guardian
The charity Become has published a report on the experiences of girls in care placed far from their local area and support networks. The report highlights the voices of eight care-experienced young women in England and...
Ofsted has published a report analysing children’s social care sufficiency in England. The report presents a new index to measure the sufficiency of children’s social care provision, looking at how availability...
The County Councils Network has published a report exploring early intervention and prevention in children’s services in England. It examines how the children’s services system could prevent more children from entering...
Four in 10 adoptive families are facing severe challenges or are at crisis point, according to a poll, leading campaigners to call for a legal right to lifelong adoption support. Read more.
Analysis by economic think-tank PBE, commissioned by the alliance of children’s charities the Children’s Services Funding Alliance, finds local authorities spent £8.4billion on supporting looked-after children in...
Family finding programmes that help children in care and care leavers reconnect with relatives and adults that are important in their lives are to be expanded across England. Read the full article on this link...
Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes run by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures
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Labour has launched an urgent review into the deaths, which one expert describes as ‘unspeakably tragic’
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