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Care applications continue to soar

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  • Wednesday, August 12, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Numbers of court applications being made for children to be taken into care are continuing to soar, with latest figures showing a 14 per cent increase compared with last year.

Scotland raises leaving care age to 21

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  • Wednesday, April 1, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Young people in Scotland who are in residential care, foster care, or kinship care will be able to remain in their placement up until the age of 21 as a result of landmark legislation.

Call for review of special guardianship orders

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  • Thursday, December 11, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) has called for a review of special guardianship orders (SGOs) amid a sharp rise in numbers being granted and concerns about the way they are used.

Slough children's services to become independent trust

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  • Wednesday, October 8, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Slough will become the second local authority to have its children's services transferred to an independent trust after children's minister Edward Timpson dismissed council proposals for alternative arrangements.

Costs of children in care hit £3.4bn

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  • Thursday, August 21, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The cost of supporting children in care has reached £3.4bn, according to an Audit Commission report that exposes widespread variation of spending across councils.

Children's social workers face knowledge test

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  • Thursday, July 31, 2014
    • | CYP Now
New children's social workers will have to pass a test of their knowledge in order to become an approved practitioner as part of government attempts to improve the quality of the profession, it has been announced.

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