Fostering and adoption

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Adoption register to open to approved adopters from July

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Children

Community Care’s adoption columnist shortlisted for prestigious media award

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‘Long-term fostering has been overlooked and undervalued for too long’

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‘Social work support and therapeutic intervention pulled our adoptive family back from the brink of disaster’

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‘Law allowing children to stay with foster carers until 21 is confusing and discriminatory’

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Adults, Children

What the Children and Families Act 2014 means for social work and social workers

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Sir Martin Narey heads up new leadership board to drive adoption improvements

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‘Not all journalists or TV programme makers are on a mission to criticise social workers’

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Adoptions are ten times more likely to break down in teenage years, finds study

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Ministers launch three new voluntary adoption agencies in £16m adoption drive

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Adult and child shadow

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‘Truly amazing’: 20 reasons you should feel proud to be a social worker

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Replay our live chat on the first episode of new Channel 4 social work series

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Children, Workforce

Ofsted publishes latest wave of new-style children’s social care inspections

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The potential injustices likely to arise from the Children and Families Act

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Children and Families Bill becomes law after receiving royal assent

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Secret Foster Carer: ‘Self-harming is a huge concern in fostering’

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