Private providers of children’s homes and foster care are making “significant and persistent” profits by charging cash-strapped local authorities elevated prices for increasingly scarce placements, the...
Ofsted’s school inspections framework is “not fit for purpose” when it comes to vulnerable children, the chair of the National Association of Virtual School Headteachers (NAVSH) has said. Speaking at a meeting...
Residential children’s care providers are warning of a staffing crisis, amid burnout fears and a salary war breaking out among homes.
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Adoption UK has published its annual Adoption barometer report, which reveals that 46% of adopted 16- to 25-year-olds were involved with mental health services in 2020, compared to the national figure of 17%. Further findings from a survey of...
Ahead of ‘Voice & Vision’, a celebration of the creative work of young people with care experience, Laura Graham, Senior Evidence and Influencing Officer, Life Changes Trust, reflects on the role creativity plays in working with...
Adopted children are facing a mental health crisis caused by failings in a system that is not set up to meet their needs, research reveals. Adoption UK’s Adoption Barometer report for 2021 reveals that 64 per cent of adopted people aged 16 and older...
What children and young people have told us about their experiences of living in children’s homes or with foster carers and staying at residential special schools or boarding schools. Children’s social care questionnaires 2021: what children and...
The Case for Change was published last week, laying out the priorities of review chair Josh MacAlister in reforming children’s social care in England. The report hails social workers as social care’s “greatest asset” but adds that in practitioners’...
The independent review of children’s social care in England has published its Case for change, setting out current problems faced by children’s social care. Findings include: there needs to be a shift in focus from assessing and investigating...
Child protection services in England are too focused on investigating families in crisis and do not provide enough early support, a report says. An independent review of council-run children’s social care said services to protect vulnerable...
The chair of the Independent Review into Children’s Social Care has launched a stinging attack on private companies that make a profit from running children’s homes. Josh MacAlister said that profiteering from the sector is “indefensible” given...
Barnardo’s have published a report looking at the experiences of young people in the UK leaving the care system. Interviews with 23 care leavers about their experiences found that an overwhelming proportion reported that they had had little or no...
On the 30th December 2020 we published this article in English. It was written to help inform an audience in Hungary as well as those interested in the topic in the UK. What follows here is the translation of that article into Hungarian A Család Az...
