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...
Early findings from Adoption UK’s forthcoming Adoption Barometer 2026 report show that more than half of respondents said they had been negatively affected by a 40% reduction to the Adoption and Special...
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...
Early findings from Adoption UK’s forthcoming Adoption Barometer 2026 report show that more than half of respondents said they had been negatively affected by a 40% reduction to the Adoption and Special Guardianship...
Children’s care campaigners have welcomed the government’s decision to introduce measures to give looked-after children the legal right to maintain contact with siblings. The measures will be introduced through an...
The introduction of financial allowances for kinship carers under a £126 million government trial has been hailed as a “life-changing” measure for cash-strapped families, campaigners have said. The per-child allowances...
The government has confirmed more than £10 million of funding to support the establishment of up to six new regional care cooperatives (RCCs), as part of national care placement improvement drive. A Department for...
The development of a National Care Offer to ensure councils offer a consistent standard of financial and housing support to care leavers is among a raft of recommendations made by an influential group of MPs. The...
Children’s minister Janet Daby has spoken to Children & Young People Now about the government’s plans to reform the children’s residential care system. Daby was speaking to CYP Now after delivering her keynote...
The president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has backed government plans to reduce the use of private care providers. Speaking to CYP Now at the association’s recent annual conference in...
Rates of high care placement instability decreased slightly in 2024 according to latest official statistics – with the percentage of children facing three or more placements in a year falling from 11% to 10% compared...
