To mark Care Leavers’ Month, Dame Rachel De Souza sets out the changes needed to improve support for care-experienced young people into adulthood. Read more.
Researchers are calling for investment in evidence-backed mentoring and befriending initiatives for care-experienced children and young people after analysis found they can boost mental health, reduce trauma...
‘Major reforms’ of the funded childcare entitlement system are needed to benefit disadvantaged children, experts have urged, as latest analysis finds that two thirds of poorer families are missing...
A year after being appointed, the government’s national implementation adviser for care leavers has published his first annual report looking at the quality of support across England. Mark Riddell was previously...
Professionals tasked with providing support for care leavers are frustrated that they cannot offer more help, with nearly a quarter of their time taken up by administration, a study has found. A report by social...
The proportion of young people who remain in foster care after turning 18 has fallen to its lowest level since the introduction of the Staying Put duty, new figures show. The proportion of young people staying in foster...
An initiative to support children leaving care has only enough funding to support one in five young people, councils have warned. Currently all care leavers are entitled to support from a personal adviser, providing...
Government efforts to improve residential care will focus on just two areas until there is clarity about leadership arrangements across children’s social care in its entirety, the man in charge of the reforms has...
This follows the changes made in the Children and Social Work Act 2017. New guidance outlining how social workers and other professionals should support children in care and care leavers has been published by the...
The government has announced extra funding to help councils cover the cost of extending support for children in care and care leavers. Personal adviser support will be extended to care leavers who are not in education...
Ofsted inspectors have praised the impact of a council’s decision to bring an externally-commissioned service back under council control. Inspectors said the decision by Wandsworth council to bring its care leaver...
The Scottish government is to legislate to ensure care leavers are exempt from paying council tax. Plans to exempt Scottish care leavers from council tax should reduce debt problems, campaigners say. The landmark...
Around two-thirds of care leavers with mental health problems are not receiving specialist support, a study by Barnardo’s has found. A study by the charity of 274 of its care leaver services cases found that 125...
