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Daily roundup: Foster care legal challenge, clinical trials on children, and teacher training standards
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- Tuesday, November 20, 2012 | CYP Now
A Welsh teenager in foster care fights for his rights in the Court of Appeal, high UK child mortality rate linked to lack of clinical trials, and government statistics on the calibre of trainee teachers, all in the news today.
How councils in the North West have united to recruit foster carers
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- Tuesday, November 27, 2012 | CYP Now
Campaign to tackle a shortage of foster carers across the North West sees a 55 per cent rise in foster carers recruited in 2011/12
Cost of foster care recruitment explored: agencies vs in-house
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- Monday, October 13, 2014 | CYP Now
Public sector consultant Impower has calculated that local authorities could save £150m by placing more fostered children with their own carers, but independent providers say its analysis of the costs and benefits is flawed.
Separation anguish
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- Monday, May 14, 2012 | CYP Now
Children in care speak of the importance of sustaining relationships with siblings, yet estimates reveal that three quarters are separated on entering care. Emily Rogers reports
How a scheme prevents adoption breakdown
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- Tuesday, May 29, 2012 | CYP Now
Placement stability has been improved thanks to a programme that offers families a chance to see their relationships in a different light
Minuses outscore pluses on adoption scorecards
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- Monday, June 11, 2012 | CYP Now
As part of its endeavour to speed up the adoption process, the government last month introduced scorecards to rank councils on their performance in placing children in adoptive homes.
How service targets the needs of birth parents
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- Tuesday, February 2, 2016 | CYP Now
Project supports parents whose children are being adopted and prevent repeat adoptions.
Slower adoptions go against the tide
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- Monday, April 29, 2013 | CYP Now
A US adoption model that is under trial in Scotland aims to reunite children with their birth families
Daily roundup: Looked-after children, ADHD drugs, and food banks
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- Tuesday, August 13, 2013 | CYP Now
Social workers want the College of Social Work to focus on looked-after children; ADHD drug prescribing rises 50 per cent in five years; and free food is offered to poor families in Birmingham, all in the news today.
Ofsted refutes accusations over 'target-driven' adoption measure
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- Monday, March 5, 2012 | CYP Now
The children's social care sector claims the watchdog's plan to bring in a 12-month adoption deadline will do little to incentivise good practice
Daily roundup: adoption incentives, Haringey Council, and academies
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- Tuesday, November 5, 2013 | CYP Now
£1,000 incentive payments boost adopter referrals in Southwark; MP calls for review of Haringey children's services; and report suggests schools are being converted to academies where it does not make economic sense, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Adoption adverts, mental health services, and children's centre closures
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- Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | CYP Now
Adoption agency places adverts featuring real children; report questions progress on mental health provision for young offenders; and politicians in Kent give green light to children's centre closures, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Care applications, child health and social workers
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- Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | CYP Now
Data reveals decrease in care applications; slight fall in child obesity levels; and social workers elected to College of Social Work faculties, all in the news today.
Councils need the means to deliver foster care support
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- Tuesday, December 17, 2013 | CYP Now
A little over two months ago, the Fostering Network called on the government to do the right thing - both morally and economically - by extending financial support to foster carers and in doing so enable children they care for to stay in the placement past their 18th birthday and up to 21 if they so wish.
Uncompromising ambition
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- Monday, August 6, 2012 | CYP Now
Lauren Higgs quizzes Martin Narey, the government's adoption adviser
Court Report: Application to relocate children
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- Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | CYP Now
Case name: Re TC and JC (Children: Relocation) [2013] EWHC 292 (Fam)
Case number [2013] EWHC 292 (Fam); Judge: Mr Justice Mostyn; Location: The High Court of Justice (Family Division)
Daily roundup: Haringey Ofsted, early intervention guidebook, and term-time holidays
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- Monday, July 21, 2014 | CYP Now
Haringey told to improve children's social care, major early intervention guide launched, and Nicky Morgan pledges to continue tough stance on term-time holidays, all in the news today.
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