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Councils join forces to cut fostering costs

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  • Tuesday, February 14, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Southampton City Council has launched a partnership with 10 other local authorities to reduce the cost of specialist fostering placements and plough the savings back into better services for children in care.

Coalition fails to improve care placements

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  • Thursday, November 27, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The coalition government has failed to make any progress in getting children into the right placement when they first enter care and ensuring it is close to their home, a damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

Exclusive: Former BAAF chiefs demand probe into collapse

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  • Thursday, August 13, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Two former chief executives of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) have called on regulators to investigate the sudden closure of the charity, claiming the process may have breached legal requirements.

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  • Monday, June 6, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Government has been called on to protect foster carers after it was claimed that they are too scared to blow the whistle on suspected cases of child abuse because they could be struck off.

National Adoption Strategy launches

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  • Monday, July 26, 2021
  • | CYP Now
A new National Adoption Strategy will centre around improving recruitment of potential adopters and allowing them to be matched with children from any ethnic group, the government has said.