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...
Coram Voice and The Rees Centre at the University of Oxford have published a report on kinship care which analyses the views and experiences of children in kinship foster care. Findings from surveys of over 1,200...
The government has published its response to more than 80 recommendations made in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. Backed by £200m in funding – less than 10 per cent of the £2.6bn called for by review...
More than one in three children are separated from siblings when they go into care, new analysis from England’s children’s commissioner reveals. Dame Rachel de Souza’s Siblings in Care report found that there are...
Children in foster care are more likely to be concerned about their family life than other children, a report has found. Children aged nine to 17 living in foster care were found to be more worried about various aspects...
Coram has published a report from the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board looking at racial disparity in adoption in England. Findings include: Black children are overrepresented in the care system, wait...
Billions of pounds in savings can be made to the economy each year through adopting children in care, a report looking at the outcomes of adoption has found. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young...
Under the plans, put forward by the Welsh government’s Labour administration and the Plaid Cymru group in the Welsh Senedd, only not-for-profit residential and foster care could be commissioned in Wales...
Local authorities should be held to a minimum standard to support adopted people access their records to help maintain a sense of identity and facilitate contact with birth families, new research finds. Two studies from...
Profit-making children’s homes are offering “poorer quality” care and support for young people compared with those run by councils and charities, analysis of Ofsted reports finds. The findings of a study, by...
As part of our commitment to encouraging local discussion and policy development we hosted a webinar on Sept 7th to examine how the care review might impact on children and young people locally. The event was hosted by...
