Children

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE makes huge cut to Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund payments

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Children, Inform Children

What is kinship care?

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Jess Phillips, the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, standing in front of a Union flag

Children, Social work leaders

National child protection agency to provide oversight of practice in England

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

New ADCS president sets out stall as government embarks on children’s social care reforms

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Children

‘What I wish I had known when a child’s reaction frightened me’

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Children, Social work leaders

£25m boost to foster care support and recruitment from 2026-28

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Children

More than half of practitioners feel ill-equipped to address social media’s influence on children

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders

Ofsted sharpens focus on stability for children in care in judgments of providers

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Children, Social work leaders

Family support spending recovers following years of stagnation, data shows

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Children

Racial bias greatly affects child protection practice, say social workers

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

No criminal sanction for failing to report child sexual abuse under mandatory reporting plan

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Children, Social work leaders

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund to continue with £50m for 2025-26

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Children, Social work leaders

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund expires with no news on future

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Prime minister Keir Starmer standing in the cabinet room in 10 Downing Street

Children, Social work leaders

Starmer fails to confirm future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund as end looms

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Rebekah Pierre

Children, Workforce

My Care Story: ‘Every social worker always seemed to be in a rush’

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Children, Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘She has revolutionised the way we approach life story work’

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