




Trends in care commissioning
- Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Andrew Rome, director of Revolution Consulting, which...
Andrew Rome, director of Revolution Consulting, which...
When a parent is found to have viewed child sexual abuse...
Recommendations from a review of residential provision for...
Ellen Broome, managing director of CoramBAAF, explains how...
It is recognised that many adults accessing drug and alcohol...
Care records can help make sense of difficult childhood...
A new government policy paper puts forward plans to change...
With many parts of the sector facing recruitment challenges,...
Augusta Itua, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, assesses the...
CoramBAAF head of policy, research and development James...
Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford,...
Dr Karen Bateson, clinical psychologist and Wook Hamilton,...
A foster parent who has cared for more than 100 children is...
Clare Seth, kinship consultant at CoramBAAF, analyses the...
CYP Now hosts an expert panel to discuss whether government...
Marianne Lagrue, policy and programmes manager in the...
Amid ongoing shortages of social workers, children's...
With Homes for Ukraine and other schemes to support...
Providers of supported accommodation to looked-after young...
Derren Hayes speaks to Barnardo's chief executive about...
Children missing from education is a key issue faced by some...
The government has published its response to more than 80...
Councils need to develop a more flexible leaving care...
Children's welfare is being harmed by ongoing backlogs in...
Claire Scott, child exploitation caseworker at Catch22, on...
With a post-pandemic surge in demand for mental health and...
Children in care are among those who have faced danger and...
Training scheme helps staff, parents and children understand...
The Online Safety Bill sets out the case for a new...
Children have never been more connected, with many able to...
People with care experience are being invited to contribute...
As the cost of living continues to rise, food banks and...
Richmond Council's call for new hosts to house Ukrainian...
A fresh focus on social, emotional and mental health needs...
Children’s social workers are often portrayed in a negative...
Derren Hayes speaks to Anne Longfield, former children’s...
Care sector expert Andrew Rome sets out the implications for...
Coram chief executive Carol Homden reflects on the...
Fiona Simpson speaks to the chair of the Care Leaver...
Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF,...
Emily Aklan, founder of children’s social care provider...
CYP Now lays out the responsibilities of ministers...
With the delay of the Online Safety Bill, the UK should not...
A comparison website set up specifically for care leavers is...
Care-experienced young people can face greater challenges...
Toni Badnall explains what councils can do to ensure they...
Ofsted has published a series of research reports on the...
Recognising the impact of past trauma and tackling its...
A digital toolkit centred around a trauma-informed approach...
Trauma-informed practice (TIP) emphasises young people’s...
Children’s home specialist support jointly funded by health...
Innovative partnership with providers in Berkshire offers...
Creative Life Story Work sees care-experienced children work...
Yorkshire council opens its own homes on “nice estates” to...
Project speeds up process of identifying children affected...
Geraldine Roseberry reflects on 25 years as a foster carer.
Struggling council transforms how it commissions placements...
New leadership team drives children's services improvements...
In-depth assessments identify ways to support young people...
Ann Marie Christian has specialised in training education...
How four areas have developed innovative ways to meet the...
Christopher Heseltine-James, interim service manager, Edge...
Childline Online Services aims to empower children and young...
Specialist team at East Anglian council works with foster...
Long-standing charity makes therapeutic care a core part of...
Strengths-based workshops help young people recognise...
Uniformed youth group redrafts online safety policies to...
Penny Catton, children’s home manager at Hexagon Care...
Glossary aims to change the language of the care system,...
Affluent South East commuter belt authority is delivering...
Churchill Fellowship-led partnership is seeking innovative...
Internet safety charity develops Project Evolve, which...
Struggling families with children at risk of being taken...
A regional initiative that aims to boost foster carer...
A pioneering programme that nurtures relationships between...
Sammi Roberts, missing children’s case worker at Catch22, on...
More than five years ago work started on a £7m project to...
Liverpool, like many areas, has seen rising demand for, and...
Young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds are...
Transitions Service gives support to students on career and...
Laurelle Brown visited Sweden in 2018 to assess how child...
North East council has improved outcomes for disadvantaged...
Visibility of children’s wider needs helps care and...
“Outstanding”-rated adoption agency Family Futures provides...
Charity supports young people in and on the edge of care,...
Weekly sessions of peer support give children and families a...
Council for former Yorkshire coal mining town has big plans...
A south London-based project is using creative expression as...
MultifunC has had impressive results in Denmark, Sweden and...
Rights-based charity helped a young person it was supporting...
Accommodation initiative sees YMCA North Tyneside offer a...
A collaboration between organisations in the public, private...
Long-time struggling West Midlands council is the latest to...
Independent visitors provide vital support to children in...
Data allows targeted commissioning of services to meet...
Research in 2011 estimated that up to 20 million children...
East Anglian council has plans to remodel early years...
Charity M3 Project supports teenage mothers and pregnant...
Outstanding-rated children's services has succeeded despite...
Researchers from the University of Nottingham were...
This study by researchers from the University of Bristol set...
Exploring the factors within the physical environment that...
Evaluation of a creative, relational approach to life story...
This study explores how digital resilience operates in...
Children and young people can get around age restrictions on...
Ofsted wanted to hear directly from care leavers about how...
This report provides analysis of all up-to-date local...
Young carers are children and young people under the age of...
The report authors obtained data from the Department for...
Study assesses how children’s home provider uses...
Study looked at the implementation of the first regulations...
The process of “matching” children and young people in care...
In late 2019, the Nuffield Foundation provided some small...
At St Christopher’s, a children’s charity in the UK and Isle...
Kairika Karsna, senior research and evaluation officer at...
Local authorities in England spend more than £2bn a year...
The concerns of London local authorities in meeting...
Demand for children's services has been increasing...
This review provides an assessment of 11 web-based parenting...
What Works for Children’s Social Care worked with four local...
What Works for Children’s Social Care requested this report...
In their practitioner review, Lacey and Minnis consider the...
This paper presents cumulative findings from studies into...
This paper presents findings from one component of a study...
This article explores safeguarding responses to peer-on-peer...
Analysis of two studies to build an assessment framework for...
This report is about a recent development at Glebe House:...
The presumed causal relationship between ACEs and poor life...
Researchers set out to investigate the accuracy of adult...
Researchers from King’s College London used data gathered...
The ACEs study was not the first to observe a connection...
OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...
OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...
OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...
OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...
This study provides summary findings from a preliminary...
This study conducted a systematic review of information and...
This project, led by the University of Kent, brought...
This study reviewed the research literature to understand...
A study on the Mulberry Bush School conveys direct work and...
The primary aim of this exploratory study was to examine the...
Researchers from the University of East Anglia wanted to...
This report presents findings from the first stage of the...
This large evidence review carried out for the Northern...
This study aimed to capture the different ways young people...
The 2015 Prevent duty mandates social workers and other...
This study is the first UK evaluation of specialist foster...
This study considers the role of the internet in gang...