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Councils face £25,000 per child shortfall under refugee scheme

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

| CYP Now

Councils involved in a Home Office scheme to take in unaccompanied asylum seeking children from other areas are facing an average £25,000 shortfall in funding for every child they support, research suggests.

Longfield to examine Muslim fostering case

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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

| CYP Now

The Children's Commissioner for England will examine reports that a five-year-old Christian girl was left distressed after being placed in foster care with a Muslim family.

Birmingham children's home closure proposals 'will save £3m'

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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

| CYP Now

Birmingham Council is planning to close five of its 17 children's homes with a view to saving £3m by increasing the use of foster care and adoption.

Experts urge training drive to boost mental health support for children in care

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Monday, November 6, 2017

| CYP Now

All carers and professionals who work directly with looked-after children should receive mental health training as part of a range of efforts to boost support for them, a government-appointed group of experts has recommended.

Social work leaders sceptical over call for more third-party provider input

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Social work and local government leaders have warned that government ambitions to allow independent sector providers to deliver children's social services must not be at the expense of councils losing their statutory powers.

Welsh care reforms place post-18 duty on councils

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Monday, February 3, 2014

| CYP Now

The Welsh government has defended proposed care reforms that it says will place new duties on local authorities to provide funding for post-18 foster care.

Call for whistleblowing protection for foster carers

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Government has been called on to protect foster carers after it was claimed they are too scared to blow the whistle on suspected cases of child abuse because of fears they could be struck off.

Extend Staying Put rights to children's homes, say MPs

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Staying Put legislation should be extended into children's homes as part of sweeping changes needed to improve post-16 support for looked-after young people, MPs have said.

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

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Friday, August 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has announced how much each council will receive this year to extend support up to age 21 for young people in foster care, but concerns remain that the money is not enough.

Buckinghamshire children's services rated 'inadequate'

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Friday, August 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted has judged Buckinghamshire County Council's children's services "inadequate" in a damning inspection report.

Number of adoptions increases

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Monday, August 18, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of children placed for adoption has risen by 14 per cent over the last year, according to latest government figures.

Councils could save £150m on foster care services, says report

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities would be able to save a total of £150m a year by improving the way they work with prospective foster parents, a report has claimed.

Ofsted gives councils 12-month deadline on adoptions

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Friday, February 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Local authorities will fail to secure an "outstanding" rating from Ofsted unless they place all children identified for adoption within 12 months.

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's services chiefs are being called upon to share information about how their departments can deliver effective services while managing challenging budgets.

Councils criticised over 'self-serving' in-house fostering policy

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

| CYP Now

A national fostering organisation has criticised councils for failing to take into account the needs of children being placed in foster care, claiming that the practice of opting for "in-house" placements means they are missing out on the most appropriate care.

DfE announces £7m innovation funding to three projects

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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

| CYP Now

Three projects will share a total of £7m in funding from the Department for Education's social care innovation progamme, it has been announced.

Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

| CYP Now

The body set up to oversee the adoption system has issued guidance in an effort to halt a sharp slump in the number of court orders being made for children to be adopted.

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

| CYP Now

More needs to be done to keep children in care out of the criminal justice system, the country's top police officer for children and young people has said.

Doncaster sees four-fold decrease in children missing from care

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of looked-after children that go missing from care in Doncaster has fallen nearly four-fold over the past year following the introduction of a dedicated support worker.

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has been handed new responsibilities for boosting the ‘character and resilience' of young people and tackling bullying, the Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed.

One in five foster placements break down, council data shows

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Monday, September 21, 2015

| CYP Now

More than a fifth of UK children in foster care have moved home two or more times a year, according to data obtained by Action for Children.

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted is struggling to complete inspections of all local authority children's services departments to schedule because it is "significantly under-resourced against agreed budgets", it has emerged.

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

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Friday, January 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been criticised for denigrating foster care with comments she made as the government launched a bid to reverse a sharp drop in adoptions.

Government set to boost mental health services for children in care

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

| CYP Now

Support for children and young people in care who are experiencing mental health problems is set to be boosted after the government pledged to set out exactly what services they can expect to receive.

Foster carer charter launched to reduce care bureaucracy

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Friday, March 18, 2011

| CYP Now

The government has produced a foster carers' charter in an attempt to reduce the everyday obstacles faced by both foster carers and children in care.

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Councils face £25,000 per child shortfall under refugee scheme

Longfield to examine Muslim fostering case

Birmingham children's home closure proposals 'will save £3m'

Experts urge training drive to boost mental health support for children in care

Social work leaders sceptical over call for more third-party provider input

Welsh care reforms place post-18 duty on councils

Call for whistleblowing protection for foster carers

Extend Staying Put rights to children's homes, say MPs

Councils receive Staying Put funding allocations

Buckinghamshire children's services rated 'inadequate'

Number of adoptions increases

Councils could save £150m on foster care services, says report

Ofsted gives councils 12-month deadline on adoptions

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Councils criticised over 'self-serving' in-house fostering policy

DfE announces £7m innovation funding to three projects

Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

Doncaster sees four-fold decrease in children missing from care

Timpson to take on responsibility for ‘character and resilience'

One in five foster placements break down, council data shows

Ofsted children's services inspections hit by funding problems

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

Government set to boost mental health services for children in care

Foster carer charter launched to reduce care bureaucracy

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