Today we have a damning report from the Home Office select committee on the detention of asylum seeking children, foster carers not getting the right training and the fourth round of the Youth Sector Development Fund.
- The Home Office Select Committee has slammed the UK Border Agency for its continued detention of asylum seeking children and recommended that after two weeks they should have to notify the Children'S Commissioner to justify the continued detention of the child and every seven days thereafter. The committee also recommended local authorities should increase their oversight of the wellbeing of detained children.
- Disadvantaged young peole should know what education and work options are open to them through "taster sessions" at universities or real experience of different careers, according to schools minister Iain Wright. His comments were made as he invited charities to bid for the fourth round of the Youth Sector Development Fund. Wright also launched revised statutory guidance to local authorities on educational and trainining assessments relating to people with learning difficulties. Local authorities will have to perform the assessment for all children with an SEN statement.
- A third of foster carers have looked after a child in the last two years for whose needs they did not have the relevant skills and experience, while only 43% have discussed their training needs with their supervising social worker. The figures come in a survey of 300 foster carers by The Fostering Network. It showed that that 90% of foster carers were receiving a wide range of training but many felt the courses did not match their experience levels.
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