Daily roundup: Charity chief, care system, and mosque vandalism

Fostering and adoption charity The Adolescent and Children’s Trust (Tact) has appointed Andy Elvin as its new chief executive. Elvin, a trained social worker, was previously chief executive of Children and Families Across Borders. He has sat on a number of working groups set up by the Department for Education and the Home Office covering issues such as child detention in immigration, child trafficking and child abuse.

New research commissioned by the NSPCC shows that the government is spending £300m a year as a result of children’s return home from care breaking down. By contrast, improving support for these children when they return home would cut the bill to an estimated £56m research commissioned by the children’s charity from the Centre for Child and Family Research (CCFR) at Loughborough University shows. Every year more than 10,000 children are returned home from care.  

A mosque has been vandalised during a far-right protest march in Rotherham, south Yorkshire. The Times reports that the glass front door of the Markaz-ul-Uloom Al-Islamia, a Deobandi mosque near the city centre, was broken on Saturday as a result of rising tension after the emergence of revelations about child sexual exploitation in the town.