This free guide offers advice and guidance to local authorities on how best to use technology while embedding planned reforms to children’s social care.
Increased financial allowances for some kinship carers and an expansion of virtual school heads' roles are among elements included in the government’s first kinship care strategy.
Government plans to “test and review” recommendations made in its response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care are “unlikely to lead to the level of investment and change that the...
Pilots to test recommendations taken forward by government from the Care Review have been launched across seven local authorities.
A fifth of local authority social workers plan to work for agencies in the future, according to a workforce survey.
Minister for veterans’ affairs Johnny Mercer has been named as cross-government lead for care leavers.
The collapse of a regional procurement framework for children’s residential care, involving seven North East local authorities, was driven by private providers “not engaging” with such schemes, the...
Risks to children in care posed by a lack of placement capacity and exacerbated by a profit-based system are becoming “increasingly untenable”, the president of the Association of Directors of...
No areas have expressed an interest in adopting government plans to pilot a scheme for regional care cooperatives (RCCs) to commission children's services, social care leaders have said.
The government is being called on to ensure kinship carers receive the same statutory paid leave as adoptive parents when they take on the care of a child.
