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‘Out There’ is about the positive difference fostering can make to everyone involved

Best Practice 1 February 2022

West Midlands councils’ films change script on fostering

Information on how many applications are heard without the local authority being served is hard to come by. Picture: alfa27/Adobe Stock

Features 1 February 2022

Legal Update: Discharge of SGOs

Sammi Roberts: “With my work, you just never know where it will take you, and I love that”

Best Practice 1 February 2022

How I Got Here: Sammi Roberts, missing children’s case worker, Catch22

More than 6,000 teenagers are living in unregulated accommodation, according to government figures. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 1 February 2022

#KeepCaringto18: Campaign for outright ban on unregulated accommodation heads to Downing Street

Stoke-on-Trent's children's services were rated "inadequate" in 2019. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 31 January 2022

‘Discernible’ progress at Stoke children’s services, Ofsted says

Guidance has been updated due to the rise in cases of Omicron reported in the UK. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 27 January 2022

Latest Covid-19 guidance for children’s social care, education, early years and youth work providers

Staff shortages are caused by isolation due to testing positive for Covid-19. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 27 January 2022

Councils face huge children's social worker absences due to Covid

Three quarters of kinship carers say they were not given information about legal aid. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 25 January 2022

MPs launch inquiry over legal aid for kinship carers

The High Court said guidance issued by the Home Office was 'unlawful'. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 25 January 2022

High Court rules Home Office age assessment guidance ‘unlawful’

Star Hobson was killed in September 2020. Picture: West Yorkshire Police

News 25 January 2022

Bradford City Council loses control of children’s services

The committee warns the bill fails to prevent the sharing of some child abuse images. Image: Paul Carter

News 24 January 2022

Online harms bill 'fails to prevent sharing of abuse images', warn MPs

Dame Christine Lenehan, director of the Council for Disabled Children is to lead the review alongside Dr Susan Tranter. Image: NCB

News 23 January 2022

Safeguarding review launches after abuse allegations at specialist children’s homes

Young people in age disputes could be subject to tests including x-rays and MRIs. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 20 January 2022

MPs criticise scientific age-assessments for asylum-seeking children

Trauma-informed care needs greater evaluation, according to the EIF. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 20 January 2022

Trauma-informed care ‘failing to meet expectations’

Care leavers said they felt unsafe living alone. Picture: Adobe Stock

News 19 January 2022

Care leavers feel they left care too early, Ofsted research shows