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Deborah McMillan is national safeguarding partner facilitator

Opinion 3 January 2024

Statutory guidance gives us ‘permission’ to practice

Ofsted introduced a separate judgment on work with care leavers, allowing more targeted recommendations. Picture: Valerii HoncharUK/Adobe Stock

Features 3 January 2024

Inspections Clinic - social care provision

Children could be lacking support in private fostering. Picture: Hanna/Adobe Stock

Features 3 January 2024

Promoting private fostering

The Care2Listen group sees care-experienced children meet once a month to share their views and drive change. Picture: Prostock-Studio/Adobe Stock

Best Practice 3 January 2024

Care-experienced children in Reading share their views to break down barriers

The Youth Endowment Fund wants all children who are arrested to be able to access therapy when they need it. Picture: Zinkevchy/Adobe Stock

News 21 December 2023

Access to therapy increases for adopted adults

Carolyne Willow: 'It beggars belief that ministers believe staff are not acting in loco parentis.' Picture: Article 39

News 21 December 2023

Children in supported accommodation not protected against corporal punishment, DfE admits

Greater commissioning of services is among recommendations made in the government's response. Picture: smolaw11/Adobe Stock

News 20 December 2023

Government promises better advocacy and commissioning of services for disabled children

Josh MacAlister chaired the Independent Review of Children's Social Care. Picture: Frontline

News 20 December 2023

MacAlister: Government care review plans ‘welcome’ but ‘too timid’

The website offers a comparison tool for council offers. Picture: Care Leaver Offer

News 20 December 2023

Councils urged to share care leaver offer on comparison site

The CHA has announced changes to its leadership team. Picture: The Children's Home Association

News 20 December 2023

Children’s Home Association announces changes to leadership

The group was the fourth largest provider of private children's home placements this year. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 18 December 2023

Large private children’s homes provider sold to private equity firms

The strategy will pilot uplifting financial allowances for kinship carers in eight areas. Picture: Mladen/Adobe Stock

News 15 December 2023

Government publishes first kinship care strategy

Sector leaders say the strategy lacks scale. Picture: Kleberpicui/Adobe Stock

News 15 December 2023

National kinship strategy ‘falls disappointingly short’, sector leaders say

The Department for Education is funding the advisory board. Picture: William/Adobe Stock

News 14 December 2023

Care-experienced young people urged to join DfE funded advisory body

Wiltshire County Council has been praised over its support for care leavers. Picture: Jon Le-Bon/Adobe Stock

News 13 December 2023

Preventative support focus sees Ofsted uplift council’s rating to ‘outstanding’