Tag Archives | kinship care

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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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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What is kinship care?

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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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Janet Daby

Children, Social work leaders

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

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Social worker assessing male carer and child in home setting

Children, Social work leaders

About the new standard of kinship care assessment

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care reform bill clears first parliamentary hurdle

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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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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils handed guide to what works in supporting kinship families

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Jahnine Davis

Children, Social work leaders

Adultification bias expert appointed national kinship care ambassador

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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children, Social work leaders

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

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Teenage boy wearing backpack looking at world map

Children, Social work leaders

‘How children are missing out on family care because councils fail to consider overseas placements’

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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children

How social workers can help kinship carers manage impact of tougher benefit rules

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE launches first national kinship strategy

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