Tag Archives | adoption

    Social worker making notes in document while talking to mother and child on a sofa

    Children, Social work leaders

    Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund opens for applications in 2025-26

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    Mother looking at young daughter, who is sitting on her lap, during session with a social worker

    Children, Social work leaders

    Sector bodies urge Phillipson to reconsider Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund cuts

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    Girl looking sad to symbolise having suffered abuse

    Children, Social work leaders

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

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    A professional man talking to a mother and child

    Children, Social work leaders

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

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    Image of march 31 on a wooden coloured calendar, next to sandtimer on white background

    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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    Janet Daby

    Children, Social work leaders

    Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: minister ‘doing everything to push forward decision’

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    Teenage girl looking at therapist in therapy session

    Children, Social work leaders

    Thousands of children risk losing access to vital therapy, claim support providers

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    Child psychologist talking to child who is sitting on sofa

    Children, Social work leaders

    Concerns over future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund with resourcing unconfirmed

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    Adoption concept image with the word 'adoption' against a blue background and various images that depict aspects of adoption

    Children, Social work leaders

    Social work practice changes urged to promote direct contact between adopted children and birth families

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    Help, support, advice, guidance, assistance, information - wooden signpost with six arrows

    Children

    First map of adoption support services for birth families created by social workers

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    Adoption concept image with the word 'adoption' against a blue background and various images that depict aspects of adoption

    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Adoption leaders bid to reform ‘institutionally racist’ system

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    Group of four children hugging each other

    Children, Social work leaders

    Overcoming the barriers to contact between siblings separated by the care system

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    The word 'adoption' spelt out in coloured letters beneath cut-outs of a family

    Children, Workforce

    Adoption practice remains strong but regional agencies struggling to recruit and retain social workers

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    Beverley Barnett-Jones

    Children, Social work leaders

    Ethnic disparities in care proceedings: what the data says

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    A couple looking unhappy

    Children

    Where are the support services for families whose children are adopted?

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