Tag Archives | looked-after children

Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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Ashley John-Baptiste, credit Cebo Luthuli

Children

Book review: ‘Looked After: A Childhood in Care’

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materials used for all about me life story work: a cardboard box containing pens, stickers, alphabet letters, sellotape and glue

Children

How creative life story work puts care experienced children in control

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Children, Social work leaders

Bill to end profit from children’s care placements in Wales published

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Children

Discharge of care orders: filling the evidence gap

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Teenage girl in care

Children, Social work leaders

More children in care placed far from home, increasing risk of poorer wellbeing, finds research

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Young people talking on stairs

Children

‘The wrong people are running the care system – and getting it badly wrong’

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refugee child from Yemen

Children, Social work leaders

Latest rise in care population driven by growth in number of asylum-seeking children, show DfE figures

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Children

‘Advocates and independent visitors made me feel listened to – but too many children in care lack this’

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Children, Social work leaders

One in eight fostering households quit last year, finds Ofsted

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Teenage girl in care

Children, Social work leaders

Specialist placements needed to reform a care system not working for teenagers, finds review

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Child holding a ball that says 'listen to me'

Children

‘Five things we can learn from the voices of 10,000 children in care’

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Rebekah Pierre

Children

‘I wanted to go back and stand up for the little girl that I was’

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Happy grandmother hugging her grandson

Children, Social work leaders

How social workers can improve support for the ‘silent and unheard majority’ of kinship carers

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Children

‘Social workers should do everything to help children in care maintain the relationships that matter’

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Children

Third of looked-after children aged 16 and 17 in unregulated settings

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