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...
More than half of vulnerable children from the European Union in the English care system have not been supported to apply for settled status, new research shows. Looked-after children and care leavers are falling...
The long awaited review into children’s social care has finally been launched and as might have been expected is already subject to “debate” as various stakeholders seek to ensure their views are listened to and heard...
The LGA’s report shows that some independent providers of children’s residential and fostering placements are achieving profits of more than 20 per cent on their income. The Government’s review of children’s social care...
Care experienced people want representation on the leadership of the review of children’s social care in England, a survey of them has found. The survey, carried out before Frontline chief executive Josh MacAlister’s...
(This article has been written to help inform an audience in Hungary as well as those interested in the topic in the UK. It is the intension of the author to have the text translated into Hungarian in the coming weeks...
Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has said there is a case for a “national care system” to enable children to receive similar standards of support across the country. The suggestion, which would...
Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England, has published a set of reports showing how the children’s residential social care system is broken and is failing many of the most vulnerable children, in particular...
The voice of care experienced people must be central to the government’s promised Care Review, the National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) has heard. Jenny Coles, president of the Association of...
A document published by the government last week detailed the results of a consultation over plans to extend controversial ammendments to children’s social care legislation until 2021. The controversial measures...
CYP Now has compiled a guide to managing transitions in care in partnership with Halliwell Homes.
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