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DfE places emergency limits on adoption support

Thursday, October 6, 2016

| CYP Now

The amount of money families with adopted children will be able to claim for therapeutic support is being capped with immediate effect due to unexpected levels of demand, the Department for Education (DfE) has said.

Feedback sought on plans to overhaul inspection of adoption services

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Ofsted inspectors are to canvas the views of adopted children and their birth and adoptive families, under plans to overhaul the scrutiny of adoption support agencies.

Adoption processes must be simplified, ADCS warns

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Monday, December 12, 2011

| CYP Now

Directors of children's services are calling on the government to simplify the assessment process for potential adopters.

Associations criticise care placement decision making

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Independent foster care and children's home bodies have come together to call on local authorities to use third sector providers to reduce inappropriate care placements.

Council's children's services to receive entire social care top-up

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Monday, January 21, 2019

| CYP Now

A council is proposing to plough all of its social care windfall from government into children's services in a bid to stem rising numbers of children in care.

Ofsted rates care services inadequate at two councils

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Friday, August 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Services for looked-after children at two local authorities have been rated as inadequate by Ofsted.

NCAS Conference: Experts push for investment in marketing strategy to improve adopter recruitment

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Thursday, October 17, 2013

| CYP Now

The government must invest in a national marketing strategy to boost attempts to recruit more potential adopters, experts have said.

Children in care 'receiving less support', Ofsted finds

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Friday, April 6, 2018

| CYP Now

Children in care are receiving less support and do not feel as safe as in previous years, a study by Ofsted has found.

Timpson moves to calm outsourcing fears

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Concerns about controversial plans to allow councils to outsource child protection services will get serious consideration, children's minister Edward Timpson has pledged.

Government rejects MPs' call to ban B&B use for care leavers

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has rejected calls from MPs for an outright ban on the use of bed and breakfast (B&B) accommodation for care leavers.

New foster care placement needed every 22 minutes

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

| CYP Now

A child goes into care and needs a foster family every 22 minutes across the UK, analysis by the Fostering Network has revealed.

Council moves from 'inadequate' to 'good' in just two years

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Friday, July 7, 2017

| CYP Now

Inspectors have praised swift improvements at a council's children's services department, which has been rated as "good", just two years after receiving an "inadequate" judgment.

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

| CYP Now

An independent panel of experts will be created to vet the decisions of local safeguarding children board chairs under revised safeguarding guidance published today.

Timpson unveils further reforms to speed up adoption

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Friday, February 28, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has continued its reform of the adoption system by publishing a series of draft regulation changes designed to remove restrictions and speed up adoption decision making.

Concurrent planning reduces problems for adopted children, finds study

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Friday, March 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Children adopted through concurrent planning are less likely to experience problems, such as school exclusion, behaviour difficulties and depression, than those who are placed with families at a later stage.

MP raises concerns over foster care monopolies

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

| CYP Now

Councils may struggle to get value for money if mergers of independent fostering providers result in monopolies, an MP has warned.

Tri-borough arrangement 'to continue for adoption and fostering services'

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Monday, October 30, 2017

| CYP Now

Three London councils will continue to operate a shared service for adoption and fostering once partnership arrangements for children's services come to an end in six months' time, it has emerged.

BASW 'insulted' by suggestion social workers are anti-adoption

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Friday, July 8, 2011

| CYP Now

The government's new adoption tsar Martin Narey has come under fire from the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) after suggesting social workers are anti-adoption.

Ofsted calls for improvements at Bristol and Rochdale children's services

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Friday, December 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Bristol and Rochdale have been told to improve the quality of services for children and young people following inspections by Ofsted.

Adopter 'buddy' scheme secures DfE innovation funding

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Monday, February 2, 2015

| CYP Now

People who are keen to adopt will be able to "buddy up" with existing adopters who will mentor them as part of an initiative being backed with £500,000 of government money.

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DfE places emergency limits on adoption support

Feedback sought on plans to overhaul inspection of adoption services

Adoption processes must be simplified, ADCS warns

Associations criticise care placement decision making

Council's children's services to receive entire social care top-up

Ofsted rates care services inadequate at two councils

NCAS Conference: Experts push for investment in marketing strategy to improve adopter recruitment

Children in care 'receiving less support', Ofsted finds

Timpson moves to calm outsourcing fears

Government rejects MPs' call to ban B&B use for care leavers

New foster care placement needed every 22 minutes

Council moves from 'inadequate' to 'good' in just two years

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Timpson unveils further reforms to speed up adoption

Concurrent planning reduces problems for adopted children, finds study

MP raises concerns over foster care monopolies

Tri-borough arrangement 'to continue for adoption and fostering services'

BASW 'insulted' by suggestion social workers are anti-adoption

Ofsted calls for improvements at Bristol and Rochdale children's services

Adopter 'buddy' scheme secures DfE innovation funding

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