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...
Newport Council, in Wales, passed the motion on 23 January, with Camden Council following suit on 29 January and becoming the 76th UK council to pledge to consider discrimination against those with care experience when...
Ofsted has published a report examining provision for children with complex needs in children’s homes in England. The report explores the broad use of the term ‘complex needs’ in placement decisions; challenges for...
There has been a sharp rise in the number of social care placements costing £10,000 a week, a Local Government Association (LGA) survey has revealed. While in 2018/19 there were 120 such placements, this figure rose to...
As part of the Joining Up Joining In project funded from the Blagrave Trust Leicestershire Cares conducted a survey in partnership with their care experienced peer researchers. So far on the project, four young people...
The largest independent providers of children’s social care saw profits of more than £300m last year, a new report commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA) reveals. The report by Revolution Consulting...
Children who have been in care are more likely to be involved with the youth justice system, a new study has found. The study from Administrative Data UK surveyed 2.3 million children born between 1996 and 1999. It...
Risks to children in care posed by a lack of placement capacity and exacerbated by a profit-based system are becoming “increasingly untenable”, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS)...
Councils across the country are being urged to offer family group conferences (FGC) after a study found they reduce the likelihood of children going into care. FGCs involve family and friends in the planning of support...
The government’s national adviser for care leavers has backed a campaign which has seen a raft of local authorities agree to treat care experience as a protected characteristic. Read the full article on this link...
Charity Become has urged the government and local authorities to increase availability of local care placements in England, warning that hundreds of children have been moved to Scotland and Wales. Become’s research...
