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Residential Care: Special Report

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 30, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Latest figures show a growth in the number of residential children’s care homes, but local authorities continue to report problems in finding sufficient care placements to meet the needs of young people.

Residential Care: Demand, supply and sufficiency

    Other
  • Tuesday, November 30, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Department for Education figures published in November show that 14 per cent of the 80,850 children looked after by local authorities live in residential care settings, the same proportion as the year before.

Inspections Clinic: Large social care providers

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 28, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Large private companies continue to play an increasing role in the provision of children’s home and fostering placements. Jo Stephenson analyses what the data says about the quality of large providers.

Children's homes 'struggling to recruit staff'

    News
  • Monday, September 13, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Children's homes are struggling to recruit staff, with people reluctant to work in the sector and qualified staff being poached by other establishments, the Independent Children's Homes Association (ICHA) has warned.