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More power to foster carers

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  • Monday, May 14, 2012
  • | CYP Now
The government is working on plans to improve the status of foster care amid an acute national shortage of carers. Ben Willis investigates what ?needs to be done

Reform adopter

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  • Tuesday, December 17, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Neil Puffett speaks to Srabani Sen, chief executive of BAAF

The 2014 Report: Children in care

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  • Tuesday, January 7, 2014
  • | CYP Now
So much of the year ahead for looked-after children will be dictated by what the final version of the Children and Families Bill looks like.

Data Check: Increase in the number of children in care

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  • Monday, October 3, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The number of children in care rose by two per cent in the 12 months to the end of March 2011. Figures published last week by the Department for Education show there were 65,520 looked-after children during the period, an increase of nine per cent since 2007.

Commissioning Children’s Social Care: Key policy developments

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  • Tuesday, May 30, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Faced with a 25 per cent rise in children in care over the past decade and funding levels that have failed to keep pace with this demand, some local authorities have struggled to ensure there are enough placements in their local area to meet the number and needs of children.

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