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...
Campaigners are warning that a Department for Education decision to slash grants under the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) will leave traumatised children without meaningful therapy. The overall...
The government has amended its Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to expand corporate parenting responsibilities of councils across the public sector. Under the amendment all government departments, schools, NHS...
The Department for Education has become the first government department to provide paid leave to staff who are kinship carers. To mark the milestone the government department has received a ‘gold standard’ from charity...
‘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 out. Read...
Young children and babies living in low-income households are often the most likely to miss out on early childhood support despite being among those most in need of help, a report by two children’s charities is...
Curtailing profit levels made by private care providers is to be the cornerstone of a new children’s social care strategy to be launched by the government today (Monday). The strategy will contain a range of new...
Every child in the care system deserves a safe, loving home. They should receive the highest quality care, in a home that is well-matched to their individual needs, so that they can thrive. Read more.
Children’s charities and sector leaders have raised concerns about the “painfully slow progress” of implementing reforms to the children’s social care system two years after recommendations were made in Josh...
A bill to remove profit from the care of looked-after children has been laid before the Welsh parliament. The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill follows a cross-party consultation launched two years ago by the Labour...
The Children’s Commissioner has published a report looking at child in need plans in England based on an analysis of published local authority procedures and Department for Education data. Key findings include: notable...
