Social Care
Latest news, analysis and opinion covering children in care, child protection, safeguarding and all aspects of child social care policy and practice.
Social Care In Depth
Ministers ignite debate on shared parenting
Working group considers legislation to "emphasise the importance of children having a relationship with both parents after separation"
Where compassion meets business steel
NSPCC's Andrew Flanagan talks frankly about altering the charity's strategy
Behind closed doors
The government, voluntary sector and local authorities are making major efforts to tackle the issue of child abuse linked to accusations of witchcraft and spirit possession. Charlotte Goddard investigates
Failure to protect migrant children
The UK Border Agency continues to prioritise immigration control over the rights of children, says Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre
Good practice case studies
How a book scheme boosts foster children's skills
The Letterbox Club Northern Ireland helps foster children improve their fluency in numeracy and literacy
Good Practice: How Harrow's partnership with Coram is boosting its adoption success rate
Harrow Council's Adoption Service now has a 100 per cent success rate in finding adoptive parents for children with adoption plans
Latest Social Care News
- Asylum-seeking children win compensation after being unlawfully detained
- Hackney domestic violence review proposes more help for teenagers
- Safeguarding measures to shield children against bailiff action
- Support for trafficked children to go under the spotlight
- Austerity measures threaten to exacerbate health inequality, ministers warned
- Councils join forces to cut fostering costs
- Norfolk and Croydon fined for data breaches
- Next Children's Society chief announced
- Children in care struggle to talk about emotional needs
- Government commits £1.2m to tackle sexual abuse in gangs
Social Care Comment
Social Care Policy
Additional Information
Latest jobs Jobs web feed
- Improving Futures - Project Manager Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council £27,052 - £29,236 pa, Wolverhampton
- Community Sibling Support Worker Acorns Circa £20k pro rata + allowences, Walsall
- Admin Officer Action for Children £16,830 - £19,620 pa, Wiltshire
- Sessional Contact Assessor DVIP £15-30 per hour, London
- Baby & Toddler Co-ordinator Pre School Learning Alliance £18,143 per annum plus £2,570 London Weighting., Fulham Central
Most read
- Seven in 10 families on financial brink
- One in three schools has no plan to deliver careers advice
- Support for trafficked children to go under the spotlight
- Organisations offered £2,200 to support teenagers into work
- Paediatricians call on government to scrap health bill
- Violence against teachers in Wales soars
Most commented
- Organisations offered £2,200 to support teenagers into work
- Families of disabled children lack access to support and information
- One in three schools has no plan to deliver careers advice
- Childminders integral to boost free childcare for two-year-olds
- Childcare ratings website will be free from malicious comments, pledges director
- YJB to seek views on long-term plan for youth secure estate
