Fostering and adoption

Children

Lords urged to back plans for young people to remain in foster care until 21

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Children

Book review: ‘An inspirational must-read for everyone involved in adoption’

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Children

‘It feels like adoption has been singled out as the head teacher’s favourite so all the cool kids must take against it’

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Child on a swing

Children

Highest number of adoptions since 1992, reveal government figures

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Children

Government announces £19.5m funding for new Adoption Support Fund

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Children

‘You can do more imaginative social work outside of a local authority’

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Children, Workforce

Directors slam second round of adoption maps

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Children

Huge numbers of adoptive parents put off by system

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Children, Workforce

Councils plan to halve national shortfall of adoptive parents within a year

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Children

Government to trial personal budgets for adoption support

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Children

Risk-averse councils stifling foster placements, warns Fostering Network

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Children

Councils attack government’s ‘misleading’ adoption scorecards

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Adults, Children, Workforce, Mental Health

Wales faces radical shake-up of social work regulation

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Children, Workforce

Social workers want compulsory registration of students

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Children

ADCS condemns 12-month adoption target

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Children, Adults

Adoption inspections to get tougher, Ofsted warns

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