Charities are warning that more than 1,000 looked-after children are moved on from their placement every week. Between 2018 and 2021 there were 220,210 changes to care placements, the equivalent of 1,059...
The University of Oxford’s Rees Centre, at the Department of Education is partnering with Become, the national charity for children in care and young care leavers to define a new measurement of success for...
The Care Review does not go far enough to support care leavers’ pathway into society or support their mental health, a charity has said.
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A national audit of the needs of children in care must be launched to properly deal with issues around the sufficiency of social care placements, Ofsted has said. New research by the inspectorate found that just over...
Kinship carers need to be legally recognised and their role supporting children who cannot remain at home clearly defined, according to campaigners.
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A programme helping children in care to maintain positive relationships with family members has been found to deliver year-on-year improvements to their mental health and wellbeing, a study shows. The research, carried...
Councils and voluntary adoption agencies are overlooking approved adopters who are black, single or older when matching children with families, according to experts. Read the full article on this link to Children &...
More than one in four children in care in need of mental health support struggled to access help during the Covid-19 pandemic, research has revealed
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The Carers Trust has published a report on the mental health and wellbeing of young carers and young adult carers in the UK in 2022. Findings from a survey of 571 carers aged 12-25 include: 42% felt stressed by their...
The Department for Education (DfE) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have published the first in a programme of work to establish which evidence-based actions the government and partners could take to reduce the number...
The ‘dysfunctional’ children’s social care market needs an overhaul to tackle high prices, scarce placements and provider debt levels, the competition watchdog has said. Following a year-long review, the Competition and...
When the BBC’s Ashley John-Baptiste reported on people who had been separated from brothers and sisters while growing up in care, he never anticipated that hundreds of people who’d had similar experiences...
The Fostering Network has published a report on the status of foster carers in the UK based on the State of the nation’s foster care 2021 survey. The report sets out key recommendations to ensure that foster carers are...
