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Financial concept meaning TAX HAVEN with inscription on the File Folder.

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s homes body excludes providers funded through tax havens from membership

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A tall young man, Tony Inwood, wearing brown trousers and a black top, leaning against a small green car, in front of a grand stately home

Children

Leaving care, mental illness and recovery: ‘There is always the possibility of a better future’

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Jeremy Hunt

Children, Social work leaders

Budget: Hunt finds £165m for children’s homes as part of public sector productivity drive

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Community Care, Workforce Insights

The benefits and challenges of working in residential care

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'Policy update' written on road sign

Children, Social work leaders

Panel disappointed with ministers’ response to its proposals to boost safeguarding of disabled children

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Children, Social work leaders

Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Good social work basics’ key to year-on-year children’s services improvements – Ofsted

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Short-notice’ children’s home closures show need for greater powers over market – sector heads

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Teenage girl in care

Children, Social work leaders

Councils referring more children from residential to foster care, report agencies

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Pad of paper with 'staff shortages' written on it

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social worker shortages making job ‘unsustainable’ for some, warns Ofsted

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Children, Social work leaders

Outsourcing of children’s home placements linked to poorer council Ofsted ratings, suggests study

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Children, Social work leaders

Welsh Government consulting on eliminating profit-making provision for children in care

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders

Number of unregistered children’s homes doubled last year, finds Ofsted

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Children

Staffing pressures limiting children’s homes’ ability to respond to rising council demand, finds study

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Children, Social work leaders

Regional care commissioning ‘risks greater costs, bureaucracy and remote decision making’

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Community Care, Workforce Insights

How working in residential care enables staff to build one-on-one relationships with young people

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