Death rate three to four times higher than among general population blamed on isolation of those leaving care
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The charity Become has published a report on the experiences of girls in care placed far from their local area and support networks. The report highlights the voices of eight care-experienced young women in...
Ofsted has published a report analysing children’s social care sufficiency in England. The report presents a new index to measure the sufficiency of children’s social care provision, looking at how...
The Department of Education (DfE) has updated statistics for 2017/18 on the number of children looked after in England. Key statistics include: on 31 March 2018 there were 75,420 looked after children in England, an...
The What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care has published two reports concerning research into safely reducing the number of children in care in the UK. A systematic scoping review investigates existing...
The number of children in care has risen to more than 75,000 for the first time, with the pace of increase accelerating, government figures show. The number of children being taken into care has risen by 2,830 in the...
More children deemed to be at risk of significant harm but not in immediate danger should remain with their families, England’s most senior children’s social worker has said. Isabelle Trowler became the...
The University of Sheffield has published a series of policy briefings on working against the challenges faced by children and ensuring they have the best possible chances in life. The four policy briefings cover: the...
Grandparents Plus has published a report looking at the challenges faced by kinship carers – grandparents and other family members – who have taken on the care of children who aren’t able to live with their...
Brigid Featherstone and Amanda Boorman talk about their experiences of respite support and how it might be used to support families before a child is removed.
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Researchers from the Centre for Child and Family Justice Research at Lancaster University, the Rees Centre, and Research in Practice have published findings from a study of newborn babies (under one week old) in the...
The number of applications for newborn babies to be taken into care has more than doubled in the past nine years, research has found. A study by the Nuffield Foundation, Born into Care, found that in 2007/08, 1,039...
Negative views of looked-after children are commonplace among teachers, with many labelling them “problem children”, a survey has found. Among more than 400 teachers surveyed, 87 per cent said they had heard...
