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Home’s therapeutic provision helps to foster independence

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

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Children’s home specialist support jointly funded by health and social care agencies enables young people to successfully transition to community placements.

Homes for young people with complex needs

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

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Innovative partnership with providers in Berkshire offers homes to young people with complex needs.

Hull invests so children in care stay connected

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

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Yorkshire council opens its own homes on “nice estates” to enable more children in care to live and thrive in the city of Hull.

Trauma-informed commissioning delivers savings

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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Struggling council transforms how it commissions placements for children in care with the focus on reducing trauma and addressing complex needs.

Regional sufficiency strategy controls costs

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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Councils collaborate to optimise the commissioning of placements, which has boosted the number of providers they work with and kept costs down.

Step-down service improves placement stability

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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In-depth assessments identify ways to support young people from residential homes into foster care delivering placement stability and reducing council costs.

St Christopher's Fellowship embeds therapeutic approaches in children's care homes

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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Long-standing charity makes therapeutic care a core part of its residential settings.

Care-experience Fellowship

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

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Churchill Fellowship-led partnership is seeking innovative ideas for new theme with focus on care system.

Young people help shape low-energy children’s homes

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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More than five years ago work started on a £7m project to build six new children’s homes in Hampshire using the latest in energy efficient technology.

Liverpool on journey to sustainable children’s home sector

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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

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Liverpool, like many areas, has seen rising demand for, and costs of, children’s residential care placements.

Independent visitors: Volunteers help children in care

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Monday, June 24, 2019

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Independent visitors provide vital support to children in care. Catherine Pestano, who helps co-ordinate a network of nearly 80 volunteers in Croydon, south London, describes a typical week for the service.

Reshape the language of care

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Monday, June 24, 2019

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Some of the language used by professionals can leave young people feeling confused and disempowered, so take a more compassionate and inclusive approach to communication to build stronger relationships.

Legal Update: Safeguarding children who go missing from care

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Monday, May 27, 2019

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Guidance outlines the importance of carrying out return home interviews with children who run away or go missing from care.

Inspections Clinic: Five tips for outstanding residential care

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Monday, May 27, 2019

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The manager of a residential setting for children with disabilities tells Jo Stephenson how it has built a culture of continuous improvement while achieving a decade of "outstanding" Ofsted ratings.

SOS Children's Villages, India

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Monday, April 29, 2019

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Research in 2011 estimated that up to 20 million children were living as orphans in India, four per cent of the country's total child population.

Folk High Schools, Sweden

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

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In 2015, Sweden received 35,369 unaccompanied minors seeking asylum. This was two-and-a-half times the number received in Germany that year and five times the number in 2014.