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Children with extra needs and disabilities are "smashing through the stereotypes"

Best Practice 24 October 2023

Blackpool helps children with additional needs

New standards for children’s homes are being devised. Picture: NDABCREATIVITY/Adobe Stock

Features 24 October 2023

Inspections Clinic: Homes for Disabled Children

The researchers recommend fathers carve out time for interactive activities with their children each week. Picture: Mediteraneo/Adobe Stock

Research 24 October 2023

Parental Involvement and its Effects on Children’s Education

Cambridge City Council is one of 55 local authorities that voted to make care experience a protected characteristic. Picture: Alexey Fedorenko/Adobe Stock

Features 24 October 2023

Legal Update: Care – A protected characteristic?

The Skill Mill’s six-month work placements allows ex-offenders to develop employability skills in a supported environment

Best Practice 24 October 2023

Young people gain skills to leave crime behind

Lambeth Council has become one of the first local authorities in England to back care status as a protected characteristic. Picture: chrisdorney/Adobe Stock

Best Practice 24 October 2023

Local Spotlight: Lambeth Council

No regulation mandates diaries be kept. Picture: Sata Production/Adobe Stock

Analysis 26 September 2023

Time to scrap the requirement of foster carers to keep diaries

New guidance ‘strengthens the argument’ for moving away from metal handcuffs. Picture: Jan H. Andersen/Adobe Stock

Analysis 26 September 2023

Briefing: custody restraint ban

Siblings’ behaviour should always be considered in the context of the wider family. Picture: Sunny studio/Adobe Stock

Analysis 26 September 2023

Spotlight on sibling sexual abuse

Maureen McKenna: ‘Schools cannot do this on their own’

Features 26 September 2023

Interview: Maureen McKenna, education expert advising London’s VRU

Social workers must be mindful that the reports they fill out may be read one day by the children in care they are writing about. Picture: Krakenimages.com/Adobe Stock

Features 26 September 2023

The dos and don’ts of case recording

Children can be placed in residential care outside their local area due to a shortage of certain types of provision. Picture: Jevanto Productions/Adobe Stock

Other 26 September 2023

Residential Care: Key policy developments

Local authorities need to have sufficient resources to deliver their statutory duties. Picture: Yakobchuk Olena/Adobe Stock

Other 26 September 2023

The Big Debate: Will new regulations improve the standard of residential care?

Hull will open its 16th home by the end of the year, three of which can accommodate disabled children and young people. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

Best Practice 26 September 2023

Hull invests so children in care stay connected

The Croft has two CAMHS-enhanced outreach workers onsite Monday to Friday to provide bespoke specialist intervention. Picture: Lightfield Studios/Adobe Stock

Best Practice 26 September 2023

Home’s therapeutic provision helps to foster independence

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