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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

| CYP Now

With government pledging to undertake a 'national stocktake' of foster care and MPs conducting their own inquiry, Joe Lepper asks what measures would improve quality of care and outcomes for children.

Using Part-Time Fostering as a Family Support Service: Advantages, Challenges and Contradictions

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

| CYP Now

This research examined how support care is provided and the advantages and contradictions in this form of family support. Implications for commissioning and practice are discussed.

Fostering stocktake: six major recommendations for change

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

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The review of foster care by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers recommends fundamental changes to the way services are commissioned and delivered, but experts have questioned the rationale for some of the proposals.

Foster care: Policy context

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

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In July 2016, the government announced it was to embark on a national "stocktake" of fostering to identify how the system can be improved.

Match Foster Care

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

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Aims to improve fostered children's placement stability and bring their outcomes into line with non-looked-after peers.

Local Spotlight: Birmingham City Council

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

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How England's largest authority is using online and one-to-one promotion to arrest a recent decline in the number of foster carers.

Tackling foster carer decline

Analysis

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| CYP Now

Councils and agencies must understand foster carers’ needs better if they are to boost recruitment.

ICT-Supported Social Work Interventions with Youth: A Critical Review

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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This study conducted a systematic review of information and communication technology (ICT) supported social work interventions with young people. This included tailor-made project websites, computer hardware, mobile phones and general internet use.

Evaluation of the University of Kent’s Consortium Project to Explore How Technology Can Support Young People in Care

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

This project, led by the University of Kent, brought together a consortium of technologists, designers and academics to understand how to leverage advances in technology for the benefit of young people in care.

Prospective adopters use technology to see the reality of childhood trauma

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

Virtual reality technology used to improve understanding of child trauma.

Care Review: key proposals for the children’s services workforce

Analysis

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

| CYP Now

A range of challenges including excess bureaucracy, ineffective technology and out-of-date legislation have resulted in a workforce crisis in many aspects of children’s social care, which requires a complete overhaul.

How I Got Here: Geraldine Roseberry, foster carer

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

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Geraldine Roseberry reflects on 25 years as a foster carer.

Legal Update: Care – A protected characteristic?

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

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Ellen Broome, managing director of CoramBAAF, explains how making care a protected characteristic would place a duty on organisations to take the needs of care-experienced people into account.

Mockingbird Family Model

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

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Involves a "hub home carer" offering peer support, respite and social activities to a "constellation" of six to 10 foster families.

Identifying Inequalities in Child Welfare Intervention Rates

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

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Academics from the universities of Coventry, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Stirling and Queen's University Belfast received Nuffield Foundation funding to study inequalities in the proportions of looked-after children, or those subject to child protection plans, in the four UK nations.

How I Got Here: Louise Day

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

| CYP Now

Foster carer and Oxfordshire County Council fostering ambassador on her career.

West Midlands councils’ films change script on fostering

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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A regional initiative that aims to boost foster carer recruitment has developed a new approach to attract applicants through a collaborative short film campaign.

Digital Safeguarding Special Report: Policy context

Other

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| CYP Now

The Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care define online abuse as any type of abuse that happens on the internet, facilitated through technology like computers, tablets, mobile phones and other internet-enabled devices.

Suffolk's therapeutic fostering team builds relationships