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Foster care focus for child asylum strategy

    News
  • Wednesday, November 2, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Plans to boost the number of foster carers for refugee and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children will be set out in a government safeguarding strategy, it has been announced.

Ripe for reform

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
With government pledging to undertake a 'national stocktake' of foster care and MPs conducting their own inquiry, Joe Lepper asks what measures would improve quality of care and outcomes for children.

DfE suggests 'exemption' from foster carer assessments

    News
  • Monday, October 17, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Councils could use controversial new powers allowing them to be exempted from children's social care legislation in order to streamline checks on potential foster carers, the Department for Education has suggested.

DfE places emergency limits on adoption support

    News
  • Thursday, October 6, 2016
    • | CYP Now
The amount of money families with adopted children will be able to claim for therapeutic support is being capped with immediate effect due to unexpected levels of demand, the Department for Education (DfE) has said.

Peers slam 'rag-tag' social work plans

    News
  • Thursday, June 16, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Peers have branded proposed government reforms of children's social work and safeguarding services a "rag tag" set of plans that is so vague that it treats Parliament with contempt.

void

    News
  • 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.

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