The Family Rights Group says findings from its latest survey reveal 91 per cent of people would trust relatives or friends to look after their children in the event they could no longer provide care themselves...
Teenagers placed at risk of criminal and sexual exploitation by “fundamental” failures in the children’s social care system deserve a “brand-new offer”, a study has concluded. The report from the Commission on...
Children’s campaigners have criticised the government’s decision not to ban unregulated care settings for 16- and 17-year-olds. The use of settings which provide housing with limited or no support for children...
A coalition of more than 40 leading children’s organisations and experts has written to government urging it to reject several proposals from a major review of the fostering system, because they would...
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...
and the Children and Families Act 2014 Arguably the Children and Families Act 2014 which became law in March this year includes the most significant reforms of the adoption system since Tony Blair and the New Labour...
The latest DfE statistics on looked-after children (LAC) in England, out last week, highlight the continuing rise in the number of LAC – up another 3% this year – accompanied for the first time in five years by a rise...
