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Adoption Scorecards: Do they measure up?

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  • Monday, June 11, 2012
    • | CYP Now
The government has introduced ‘adoption scorecards' for local authorities as part of its bid to improve and speed up the adoption process. Jo Stephenson approaches four councils to uncover the stories behind the statistics

Foster care: policy context

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  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Latest Department for Education data on looked-after children shows that 71 per cent of the 80,850 children in care in 2020/21 were in foster placements, down on the 75 per cent peak in 2015.

Ask Jeanie: Teenager running away from foster placement

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  • Friday, May 27, 2011
    • | CYP Now
I'm working with a 13-year-old girl who has started running away from her foster placement. I'm at my wits' end as to how to help her. She's been seen in town a few times with some older girls. I want to help her foster carer to help the girl to understand the risks involved. But I'm not sure what to say or who else could help.

Call for a national adoption agency is based on a fallacy

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  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Some people used the recent National Adoption Week (17-23 October) to renew calls for a national adoption agency. But to advocate such a position is to continue to fall for the fallacy that everything would be all right if only everyone followed the same practice, according to a central template.

Daily roundup: Carers allowances, Daniel Pelka, and safeguarding

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  • Thursday, August 1, 2013
    • | CYP Now
An investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman has found 340 carers in Liverpool were underpaid by the council; the serious case review into the death of four year old Daniel Pelka will be published shortly; and the SNP wants to bring in state-appointed guardians for all children, in the news today.

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

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