Trends in care commissioning
- Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Andrew Rome, director of Revolution Consulting, which...
Foster Care
What are the main challenges in recruiting foster carers, and how are carers best supported to ensure stable placements and good outcomes for children? See our archive of case studies, features and research.
In-depth
Legal Update: Care – A protected characteristic?
- Social Care | Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal | Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Ellen Broome, managing director of CoramBAAF, explains how...
Legal Update: The Carer’s Leave Act 2023
- Children's Services | Children's rights | Social Care | Legal | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Foster Care
Augusta Itua, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, assesses the...
Commissioning Children’s Social Care: Special Report
- Management | Commissioning | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Government plans in the wake of the Care Review aim to...
The big debate: Will regional commissioning improve sufficiency and efficiency of places?
- Management | Commissioning | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
CYP Now hosts an expert panel to discuss whether government...
Commissioning: Coping with price rises
- Management | Commissioning | Cost-of-living | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Legal expert Léonie Cowen gives advice on how councils can...
Southern authorities work together to stimulate foster care placements
- Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Foster Care
Consortium of 16 councils develop new framework to boost the...
Commissioning Care: Special Report
- Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Recommendations in the Care Review aim to improve...
Putting the Care Pledge into Practice
- Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption | Social Care
To mark the third anniversary of the Care Experienced...
Foster Care: Special Report
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
While the number of fostering households has gone up, the...
Legal Update: Social media and adoption
- Children's rights | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Legal | Adoption | Foster Care
Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, on...
Improving foster carer recruitment
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
A nationwide shortage of foster carers was exacerbated by...
Children's Care Commissioning Special Report
- Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Commissioners of children's services are key to ensuring...
How I Got Here: Louise Day
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Foster carer and Oxfordshire County Council fostering...
South East pilot gives care providers equal stake in developing placement contracts
- Social Care | Management | Commissioning | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Pilot project attempts to give care providers an equal say...
Fostering partnership to boost children's life chances
- Social Care | Commissioning | Foster Care
Midlands councils work with independent fostering provider...
The reports and investigations set to shape direction of Care Review
- Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care | Foster Care | Adoption | Guide To...
Experts highlight the review of residential care, social...
Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings | Youth Offending | Leaving Care | Adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative...
Four decades of adoption & fostering
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care | Adoption
Adoption and fostering charity CoramBAAF celebrated its 40th...
Sibling relationships in the care system
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Children's Services | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Legal | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption
Children’s services and courts face serious challenges when...
Therapeutic Care: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption
With rises in children coming into care and reporting mental...
Commissioning: Social care placements
- Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Adoption | Foster Care
It is time for councils to create a level playing field...
Commissioning: Foster care relative costs
- Fostering and adoption | Commissioning | Service configuration | Foster Care
Children’s services commissioners need to take into account...
Special Report: Commissioning Care
- Social Care | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care | Adoption
Commissioners play a pivotal role in ensuring vulnerable...
Fostering stocktake: six major recommendations for change
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
The review of foster care by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers...
Inspections: Local authority foster care
- Ofsted | Fostering and adoption | Inspections | Foster Care
The number of local authority foster placements rose last...
Legal Update: Financial support for foster carers
- Fostering and adoption | Legal | Foster Care
A recent finding of the Local Government and Social Care...
Legal Update: Cultural matching in foster care
- Children's rights | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Legal | Foster Care
Reports of a child being placed with "inappropriate" foster...
Your guide to the Children and Social Work Act
- Education | Sexual health | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Leaving care | Safeguarding and child protection | PSHE Education | Foster Care | Leaving Care | Adoption | Preventing Care Proceedings | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
What the act means for everyday practice across the...
Local Spotlight: Birmingham City Council
- Management | Service configuration | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
How England's largest authority is using online and...
Children in care attainment tool
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Social Care | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care
How a resource analysing education progress for looked-after...
Understanding impact of abuse and reviewing care placement options
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care | Adoption | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Review assesses the evidence on the impact of abuse on...
Foster care: Policy context
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
In July 2016, the government announced it was to embark on a...
Cared-for learning
- Education | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Attachment & Neglect | Foster Care
Emily Rogers looks at some innovative methods to raise the...
In a good place
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care
As the number of children in care reaches record levels, Joe...
Ripe for reform
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Foster Care
With government pledging to undertake a 'national stocktake'...
Behind the Inspection Ratings: Independent fostering agencies
- Ofsted | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Local authorities are increasing their use of independent...
Future of foster care: innovation in recruitment and retention
- Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Management | Service configuration | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Three out of four children in care are fostered, but the...
Good Practice
How artists help children to explore their life stories
- Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Creative Life Story Work sees care-experienced children work...
How I Got Here: Geraldine Roseberry, foster carer
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Geraldine Roseberry reflects on 25 years as a foster carer.
Trauma-informed commissioning delivers savings
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Management | Commissioning | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Struggling council transforms how it commissions placements...
Regional sufficiency strategy controls costs
- Management | Commissioning | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Councils collaborate to optimise the commissioning of...
Step-down service improves placement stability
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Management | Commissioning
In-depth assessments identify ways to support young people...
Suffolk's therapeutic fostering team builds relationships
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Specialist team at East Anglian council works with foster...
West Midlands councils’ films change script on fostering
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
A regional initiative that aims to boost foster carer...
Mockingbird grows as foster carers value ‘extended family’ support network
- Foster Care | Social Care | Fostering and adoption
A pioneering programme that nurtures relationships between...
Foster care for adolescents with complex needs in Sweden
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Laurelle Brown visited Sweden in 2018 to assess how child...
Prospective adopters use technology to see the reality of childhood trauma
- Fostering and adoption | Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Virtual reality technology used to improve understanding of...
Foster carers make a connection at activity days
- Foster Care
Coram's Fostering Activity Days help prospective foster...
IFA South Central Framework
- Social Care | Foster Care
Councils and independent providers in southern England...
Fostered children make film about their lives with care leaver Kriss Akabusi
- Leaving care | Participation | Foster Care
Digital Life Stories project sees young people collaborate...
Lifelong Links
- Attachment & Neglect | Foster Care
Detailed searches are carried out to identify extended...
Head, Heart, Hands - Aberlour Fostering
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Head, Heart, Hands was a UK-wide, three-year programme that...
Keep Fostering - National Implementation Service
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Keep is a training programme that has been delivered to more...
Match Foster Care
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Aims to improve fostered children's placement stability and...
Mockingbird Family Model
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Involves a "hub home carer" offering peer support, respite...
Innovation for children in care
- Residential and specialist care | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care
Amid the multitude of challenges in working with children in...
Neglect in early years can cause lasting brain damage
- Health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect | Foster Care
How neural frameworks that usually develop in young children...
Guide helps foster better awareness of pet benefits
- Health | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care
Following uncertainty by children's services into whether...
Research
The Discharge of Care Orders: A Study of England and Wales
- Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care | Adoption
This study by researchers from the University of Bristol set...
Commissioning Care – Research evidence: Sufficiency report
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Fostering and adoption
This report provides analysis of all up-to-date local...
Profit Making and Risk in Independent Children’s Social Care Placement Providers
- Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Local authorities in England spend more than £2bn a year...
Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 1
- Social Care | Children's Services | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care
OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...
Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 2
- Social Care | Children's Services | Foster Care
OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...
Preliminary Evaluation of the Virtual Reality Pilot Programme: The Cornerstone Partnership
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Fostering and adoption | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Foster Care | Adoption
This study provides summary findings from a preliminary...
ICT-Supported Social Work Interventions with Youth: A Critical Review
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption
This study conducted a systematic review of information and...
Evaluation of the University of Kent’s Consortium Project to Explore How Technology Can Support Young People in Care
- Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Kinship care | Leaving care | Residential and specialist care | Adoption | Foster Care
This project, led by the University of Kent, brought...
Safe Foster Care for Victims of Child Sexual Exploitation
- Social Care | Foster Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This study is the first UK evaluation of specialist foster...
Foster-Care Commissioning in an Age of Austerity: The Experiences and Views of the Independent Provider Sector in One English Region
- Social Care | Foster Care
This paper reports findings from a study on the effects of...
Using Part-Time Fostering as a Family Support Service: Advantages, Challenges and Contradictions
- Social Care | Foster Care
This research examined how support care is provided and the...
Comparing the Locus of Control of Young People in Foster Care
- Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Foster Care
Research into whether the locus of control of children in...
Identifying Inequalities in Child Welfare Intervention Rates
- Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Adoption
Academics from the universities of Coventry, Sheffield,...
Adding Evidence to the Ethics Debate: Investigating Parents' Experiences of Their Participation in Research
- Participation | Foster Care | Adoption
This paper explores the views of parents and carers involved...
A critical review of qualitative research into the experiences of young adults leaving foster care services
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care | Leaving Care
This paper qualitatively analyses children and young...
(In)Sufficient?: ethnicity and foster care in English local authorities
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
This paper examines the issue of ethnicity in the context of...
Reviewing the literature on the breakdown of foster care placements for young people: complexity and the social work task
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
Factors associated with the breakdown of long-term foster...
Reunifying abused or neglected children: Decision-making and outcomes
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care
This longitudinal study examines one of the most critical...
Supporting Long-term Foster Care Placements in the Independent Sector
- Service configuration | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care
The impact of Match Foster Care's pilot project to improve...
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