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Children, Social work leaders

DfE launches first national kinship strategy

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Children, Social work leaders

Number of foster care households shrinks for second consecutive year

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Jeremy Hunt

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Hunt’s Budget boosts tax relief for foster and shared lives carers and support for care leavers

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Children

Key messages for social workers from research into kinship foster care

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Teenage girl in care

Children, Social work leaders

Councils referring more children from residential to foster care, report agencies

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Children, Social work leaders

One in eight fostering households quit last year, finds Ofsted

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Children, Social work leaders

Welsh Government consulting on eliminating profit-making provision for children in care

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Male carer and child

Children, Social work leaders

Half of foster carers considering quitting due to cost of living crisis, finds survey

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Regional policy key on keyboard

Children, Social work leaders

Regional care commissioning ‘risks greater costs, bureaucracy and remote decision making’

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Children, Social work leaders

Foster carers feel ‘cut adrift’ by social workers when facing allegations

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Image of female child holding female adults' hand (credit: Chinnapong / Adobe Stock)

Children

Should – and could – councils reduce their reliance on independent fostering agencies?

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Image of female child holding female adults' hand (credit: Chinnapong / Adobe Stock)

Children

‘She was heartbroken – and no amount of love was going to fix that’: how fostering is not what you think

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investigations

Children, Social work leaders

‘Dysfunctional’ care market needs overhaul to tackle high prices and scarce placements, says watchdog

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Children

Foster carers plan exit after council cuts fees for some by £100 a week

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Vivian Okeze-Tirado, overall winner at the 2021 Social Worker of the Year Awards

Children, Social work leaders

Social Worker of the Year: ‘As social workers, we promote social justice’

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Children, Social work leaders

Better relationships with children’s social workers ‘key to tackling foster carer crisis’

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