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...
A children’s rights charity has threatened the Government with legal action over its decision not to ban the use of unregulated accommodation for 16 and 17 year-old children in care. In February, the Department for...
More than 1,000 social workers, charity workers and care experienced people have submitted evidence and advice to the Care Review. The review’s Call for Evidence attracted more than 200 comprehensive responses...
Councils in England with above-average rates of looked-after children could save a total of £7bn over the next decade by focusing on early intervention policies that target vulnerable families, according to researchers...
The Department for Education (DfE) has published figures on outcomes for children in need including children looked after by local authorities in England. The findings, which cover the year ending 31 March 2020...
Campaigners have criticised the “overwhelming” announcement of seven new or ongoing reviews – including the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care – relating to vulnerable children. Concerns have been...
Concerns have been raised over the scope of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care after it emerged that no additional funding for implementing the recommendations has been pledged. Publication of...
Just over two weeks ago saw the beginning of the long awaited review of children’s social care and the chair of this review opened the discussion with the question ‘How do we ensure children grow up in loving, stable...
The UK’s competitions regulator has launched an examination of children’s social care provision across England, Scotland and Wales. The move comes following a call from Josh MacAlister, chair of England’s Independent...
The long-awaiting review, which was promised in the Conservative Party’s 2019 general election manifesto, was first announced in January It was today (1 March) announced that work is “underway” as chair Josh MacAlister...
Care experienced people, sector leaders and MPs have expressed “hurt” and “disappointment” after more than 900 people were rejected from the Care Review’s Experts by Experience (EbE) group. Last month, chair of the...
