A social care service that offers foster care support to adults with learning disabilities is being made available to care leavers. The Shared Lives initiative typically offers adults with learning disabilities a place...
Adoption
Adoption UK has published a report on adoption across the UK. The annual report looks at support services and the impact of policy and practice on adoptees and families. It looks at how well-prepared new adopters are in...
Sector leaders criticise lack of progress two years on from Care Review publication
Children’s charities and sector leaders have raised concerns about the “painfully slow progress” of implementing reforms to the children’s social care system two years after recommendations were made in Josh...
Bill to remove profit from children’s care introduced into Welsh Senedd
A bill to remove profit from the care of looked-after children has been laid before the Welsh parliament. The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill follows a cross-party consultation launched two years ago by the Labour...
Kinship foster care ‘not explored as an option’ for most children, research warns
Kinship foster care – where a child is fostered by a family friend or relative – is “too infrequently explored” across England and Wales as an option for children in care, new government data suggests Read the full...
Adoption England pledges to boost diversity among adopters
Adoption England has launched its three-year strategy to “modernise adoption services” in England, setting a goal to recruit adopters from diverse communities to support more children’s needs Read more on...
