Children in care supplement
Neil Puffett
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
CYP Now has produced a definitive guide on supporting looked-after children and young people to fulfil their potential amid increasing pressure and policy reform.
Our annual Children in Care supplement aims to lay bare the pressing challenges across the commissioning landscape, in foster care, residential care, and indeed the support young people receive when leaving care. It also aims to shine the spotlight on examples of innovative practice and ideas that are being executed to good effect.
The supplement is freely available to read online, download as a PDF or click on each title below to read individual articles:
Commissioning
Commissioners face challenges to provide children with stable, happy homes that cater to their needs as the number of care referrals reaches record levels.
Residential care
The Narey review argues that the view of children's residential care as an "anachronism" underestimates its contribution. How can this perception be overturned?
Foster care
As the government pledges to undertake a "national stocktake" of foster care, what measures would improve quality of care and outcomes for children?
Education
Innovative methods to raise the educational attainment of children in care and reverse the damaging impact of adverse early life experiences on their ability to learn
Innovation
Amid the multitude of challenges in working with children in care, a huge amount of innovation is taking place across the country
Staying close
How new initiatives to enable young people in residential care to "stay close" to their placement when they leave will work, helping to smooth their transition to adulthood
Leaving care
Why the government is reviewing the role of personal advisers in supporting care leavers after its Keep on Caring strategy gave councils new duties