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Digital solutions in children’s services: Key policy developments

The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care described the IT systems used by children’s services as “poorly configured”. These, it said, create barriers to data collection, delay information sharing and add extra bureaucracy for social workers to navigate, which takes them away from frontline practice.

Legal Update: Increasing early permanence

Coram report concludes a more co-ordinated and systematic approach is needed for fostering and adoption particularly in London, explains Max Stanford, head of Impact and Evaluation at Coram.

Digital storage keeps children’s memories safe

Cloud-based system allows care-experienced children and young people to safely store important photos and documents digitally so the valuable personal memories can be accessed at any time in the future.

Growing children’s services interventions of the future

The Coram Innovation Incubator (CII) programme is bringing together children’s services providers, academics and tech experts to develop and test innovative practice ideas that can improve how systems operate so they can be scaled up in the future.

Inspections Clinic: Regional adoption agencies

Regional adoption agencies now provide the majority of England’s adoption services on behalf of local authorities. Jo Stephenson looks at some of the main findings from Ofsted’s sample inspections.

Fresh start for childminding

Childminders provide essential childcare for many families, but numbers continue to fall. How can services successfully recruit and support more childminders and help reverse the decline?

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