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Special Report: Residential Care

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Standards of residential child care have never been higher, but a shortage of provision and rising demand due to more traumatised children coming into the system is stretching local authority budgets to the limit.

Mulberry Bush: Building the Burrow

Residential special school Mulberry Bush is opening a new year-round unit to care for children who do not have families to return to during school holidays. Tom de Castella visits the specialist facility.

The Mulberry Bush School

Residential school that caters for troubled children has introduced methods that focus on helping children express their feelings and come to terms with past trauma.

No Wrong Door

North Yorkshire Council creates children's home "hubs", offering specialist professionals, outreach work, foster care and supported accommodation.

Special Report: Residential Child Care

    Features
  • Wednesday, June 28, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Lauded for the essential role it plays in the lives of vulnerable young people, the residential child care sector faces increasing financial challenges if it is to continue to deliver quality therapeutic provision.

Around the corner

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Young people in residential care will soon have the right to 'stay close' to their placement when they leave, helping smooth the transition to adulthood. Joe Lepper investigates how this is likely to work.

In a good place

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
As the number of children in care reaches record levels, Joe Lepper examines the challenge for commissioners to provide children with stable, happy homes that cater to their needs.

Innovation for children in care

Amid the multitude of challenges in working with children in care, a huge amount of innovation is taking place across the country. Charlotte Goddard examines three examples of excellent practice.

Feeling at home

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
    • | CYP Now
The Narey review argues that the prevailing view of children's residential care as an 'anachronism' significantly underestimates its contribution. Joe Lepper asks how these views can be overturned.

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