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Achievement against the odds

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 15, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Looked-after children's educational performance trails far behind their peers. Jo Stephenson asks what role social workers can play to narrow the attainment gap.

Keeping care in the family

It is estimated that up to 300,000 children live with grandparents, other family members or friends because they cannot live with their parents. Jo Stephenson looks at the challenges and the state of support for the country's army of kinship carers.

Legal Update: Kinship care arrangements

Clare Seth, kinship consultant at CoramBAAF, analyses the impact that proposed government reforms following the Care Review will have for kinship carers and the children they look after.

Legal Update: Kinship care and the Care Review

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, explains how proposals in the Care Review to encourage more children to be placed in kinship care arrangements could have unintended consequences.