This article comprises a summary taken from Community Care Inform Children about working with parents of looked-after children. The full practice guidance content covers working well with parents, supporting behaviour change, assessment...
Attainment gap widens for children in care
Looked-after children’s GCSE grades fell last year as the education gap with their secondary school peers worsened, according to government statistics. The Department for Education figures also reveal that the proportion of looked-after...
Looked After Children: The Reluctant State and Moral Salvation
Over the past fifty years, public care for children in England has undergone a significant transformation moving almost exclusively towards foster care as the preferred mode of delivery. The most recent data from the Department for Education for the...
Care leavers survey
Coram Voice has published findings from a survey with care leavers in England. Findings from the responses of 474 16-25 year old care leavers who completed the survey in six local authorities in England in 2018 include: 63% of care leavers agreed...
Missing from care
The Children’s Society reports that MPs have launched an inquiry into children who go missing from “out of area” care homes in England. The decision follows data obtained through a parliamentary question by the MP Ann Coffey, which...
All you need is love and a village?
(This article first appeared on the website of The Howard League For Penal Reform) A few weeks ago I wrote an article that set out to explain why almost thirty years after the Children Act became operational many care experienced young people still...
