Tag Archives | Fostering

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Children, Social work leaders

Care population falls for first time in 16 years but remains at historically high levels

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Children, Social work leaders

10% drop in mainstream foster care household numbers since 2021

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care reform delay will prolong ‘crisis’ and increase costs, charities warn

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Children, Social work leaders

Budget includes £44m for kinship and foster care

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Children, Social work leaders

Children staying longer in care due to inequalities in kinship carer payments, says report

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Number of children’s homes up 44% since 2020 as fostering sector shrinks

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Children, Social work leaders

Fostering Families: a relationship-based alternative to separating them

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE launches first national kinship strategy

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Children, Social work leaders

Number of foster care households shrinks for second consecutive year

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Jeremy Hunt

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Hunt’s Budget boosts tax relief for foster and shared lives carers and support for care leavers

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Children

Key messages for social workers from research into kinship foster care

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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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Children, Social work leaders

One in eight fostering households quit last year, finds Ofsted

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Children, Social work leaders

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

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Children, Social work leaders

Half of foster carers considering quitting due to cost of living crisis, finds survey

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Children, Social work leaders

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

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