Fostering and adoption

Children

Social workers could only need to visit children in long-term foster care placements twice a year

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Children

Life after leaving care: ‘There were times when I’ve rifled through bins’

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Children

Leaving care services are “not working for the most vulnerable” warns Action for Children

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Adult and child play

Children

Care applications on the rise, Cafcass figures show

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Children, Workforce

An ideological approach to adoption figures means we are missing important trends

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Workforce, Children

Increasing demand for adoption experts prompts new social work course

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Children

Government adoption reforms only impacting on younger children, says charity

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Children

Three quarters of foster carers expected to make use of “staying put” arrangements

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Children

How to support foster carers of young people who have shown harmful sexual behaviour

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Children

Adoptions rise by 26%, Department for Education figures show

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Children

Are social workers being dishonest about the realities of adoption?

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Children

One in three children split from siblings in foster care, finds Action for Children

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Children

Manchester children’s services ‘inadequate’, Ofsted finds

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Children, Workforce

Council criticised over adoption push were acting “against child’s wishes”

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Child-playing

Children

70% of family courts not meeting 26-week target for care cases

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Children

Foster carers need to be seen as the ‘first educators’ of children in care

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