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National standards for unregulated supported accommodation to come into force in 2023

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

| CYP Now

Unregulated supported accommodation for 16- and 17-year-olds will be overseen by Ofsted under a new set of mandatory national standards from 2023, the outcome of a government consultation reveals.

Ofsted: National approach to commissioning for children’s homes ‘long overdue’

News

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

| CYP Now

A national approach to commissioning residential services for children with complex needs is “necessary and long overdue”, Ofsted has said.

Liverpool on journey to sustainable children’s home sector

Best Practice

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

| CYP Now

Liverpool, like many areas, has seen rising demand for, and costs of, children’s residential care placements.

How Wellbeing Charter is supporting residential child care workforce

Research

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

| CYP Now

In late 2019, the Nuffield Foundation provided some small seed funding to develop a Wellbeing Charter for staff in residential children’s homes, with a particular focus upon the frontline workforce.

Residential Care: Special Report

Features

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Latest figures show a growth in the number of residential children’s care homes, but local authorities continue to report problems in finding sufficient care placements to meet the needs of young people.

Residential Care: Demand, supply and sufficiency

Other

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Department for Education figures published in November show that 14 per cent of the 80,850 children looked after by local authorities live in residential care settings, the same proportion as the year before.

Drop in number of council-run children’s homes

News

Monday, November 29, 2021

| CYP Now

The number of local authority-run children’s homes in England and Wales decreased between April and August this year, according to latest figures from Ofsted.