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...
Professionals tasked with providing support for care leavers are frustrated that they cannot offer more help, with nearly a quarter of their time taken up by administration, a study has found. A report by social...
The Nuffield-funded Review confirms there is a crisis in Children’s Social Care and Family Justice Sector and sets out 20 options for change. The Care Crisis Review published today considers how to address the ‘care...
The Department of Health and Social Care has published a carers action plan for England for 2018-2020. The plan includes a section on supporting young carers, which covers: identifying young carers, improving...
TACT (The Adolescent and Children’s Trust) has published a report of its annual survey of children and young people and their foster carers’ experience of education. 81 children and young people were interviewed and 89...
Nearly half of the entire £8.6bn budget for children’s services across England is spent on 73,000 children in the care system, resulting in gaps in provision for millions of other children, children’s commissioner for...
A residential children’s home worker who grew up in care talks about how regulation for children’s home workers can’t come without better training.
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The Children’s Commissioner for England has published the second Stability Index, an annual report that tracks the experiences of children in care. The Index gathers data from local authorities in England. Key findings...
Children in care are being moved around too much, with the proportion who have experienced a change in school, home or social worker within a year all rising, the children’s commissioner for England has warned. Anne...
A social worker reflects on their biases around adoption and the need for group decision-making in matters of separating children from families.
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Children’s services in Wales are nearly “at crisis point”, according to the body that represents councils. The latest figures show that there has been a 149% increase in the number of court applications to remove...
