Fostering and adoption

Council chiefs urged to inform debate on effective commissioning

Early Years

Conservative Conference 2011: Adoptive parents' leave and pay 'should be aligned with maternity arrangements'

Social Care

Data Check: Increase in the number of children in care

Social Care

Number of adoptions continues to fall, DfE figures reveal

Social Care

Councils' foster carer recruitment drive garners more than 3,000 responses

Social Care

An end to adoption delay benefits all concerned

Social Care

Councils to share 6m intensive support fund

Children's Services

Good Practice: How museums in Norfolk are reaching out to looked-after children

Social Care

Carers need training to reduce suicide risk

Social Care

Data Check: Accommodation for children in care

Social Care

Narey defends adoption report

Social Care

Charities line up to condemn dearth of post-adoption support for children and families

Social Care