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Rethinking how we protect young children at risk of abuse and neglect

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

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The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care acknowledges that the current system of child welfare and support needs to be re-evaluated. It provides an opportunity to rethink how the system is organised and how it responds to children in need of care and support.

Briefing: Innovation Incubator

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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Coram initiative will pool knowledge of councils, charities and businesses to develop innovative ideas.

Lessons for England from Scots’ review

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

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Fiona Duncan, chair of the care review in Scotland, offers advice for English counterparts on key issues for probe into care system.

Guide helps children’s workers respond to sibling sexual abuse

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

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Sexual abuse involving child siblings is thought to be the most common form of intra-familial child sexual abuse.

Care Review: sector leaders set out their priorities for change

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

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Children’s services experts and voluntary sector chiefs want children’s social care review to deliver solutions to early help funding crisis, investment in social workers, more support for carers and the leaving care ‘cliff edge’.

Care experts outline ambitions

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

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Care-experienced people want the Care Review to shape a system that better meets children’s needs.

Lockdown widens digital divide

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

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Campaigners call for improvements in national scheme to provide care leavers with digital equipment.

Factors for stagnation in use of homes

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

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With children’s homes occupancy rates not keeping pace with demand, experts cite a mismatch between children’s needs and available places.

Charities push for Staying Put

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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Better funding and tackling bureaucracy are needed to help more over-18s stay with their foster carer.

Four key leaving care challenges

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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New guide sets out what children’s professionals should do to get the best outcomes for care leavers.

Practitioners reflect on lockdown problems

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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NSPCC has analysed staff diaries to identify key challenges of lockdown for services and vulnerable families so future lessons can be learned

Early adopters set out the key features of children’s trusts

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

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When it launched its children’s social care reform programme nearly five years ago, the Department for Education expressed an ambition that a third of councils should be in the process of handing responsibility for services to a children’s trust, or had completed the process, by 2020.

Tackling foster carer decline

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

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Councils and agencies must understand foster carers’ needs better if they are to boost recruitment.

Rise in child refugees sparks calls for mandatory transfer scheme

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

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Amid a rise in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children coming to the UK, council chiefs in Kent say voluntary national support scheme has failed and call for it to be made compulsory to share pressures around the country.

Agencies innovate to recruit foster carers

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

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The pandemic has reduced the existing pool of foster carers, so charities and councils have utlised digital methods to attract people to fostering

Put end to unregulated provision for under-18s, urge campaigners

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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Consultation to tighten restrictions on the use of unregulated supported accommodation does not go far enough, say campaigners. But children’s services leaders call for councils to be given flexibility in finding the right settings.

Gaps in knowledge on ACEs

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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Review shows negative impact of adverse childhood experiences and says understanding must improve.

Immigration status and Brexit

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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Expert says councils must take measures to ensure children in care have leave to remain from 2021.

England eyes Scotland review for lessons on care system overhaul

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

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Taking three years, Scotland’s care review sets out detailed proposals for changing the “broken” care system. With the UK government pledging its own care review, sector experts identify what England can learn.

Peterborough contract collapse: key reasons and its implications

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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Seen as a blueprint for future charity and council partnerships to deliver children’s services, the £126m contract between Tact and Peterborough City Council has ended after just three years. Experts assess what can be learned.

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