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The Social Care Academy

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 31, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Vacancy rates and staff turnover have plummeted in Essex since the opening of its children's social work training academy. Charlotte Goddard asks those behind the initiative how it has been achieved.

Fostering system under 'unsustainable strain'

    News
  • Monday, January 30, 2017
  • | CYP Now
The UK's fostering system is under "unsustainable strain" and is being held together by the goodwill and commitment of thousands of dedicated foster carers, charity The Fostering Network has warned following a major survey.

Adoption support cap to remain until 2018

    News
  • Thursday, January 26, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Limits to the amount of money families with adopted children can claim for therapeutic support will remain in place until at least 2018 it has been announced.

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.

Call for a national adoption agency is based on a fallacy

    Other
  • 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.

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.