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A new report Towards A National Care Family, by Tact chief executive Andy Elvin sets out proposals for one national service covering fostering, adoption, kinship, residential,...

Nadhim Zahawi, whose star has risen during the pandemic as vaccines minister, is to become education secretary after Gavin Williamson’s gaffe-prone tenure came to an...

NSPCC Learning has updated the introduction to safeguarding and child protection elearning course for anyone working with children and young people in the UK. The...

Farrer & Co has released a two-part podcast offering guidance on the law, best practice and how to effectively safeguard transgender children and young people....

UK Youth are recruiting to their Young Changemakers programme for 16- to 25-year-olds in England who have lived experience of mental health and racial injustice....

Foster care matching needs more resource to tackle the “crisis atmosphere” of many placement decisions, research has recommended. What Works for Children’s Social Care said increased funding was needed to enable social...

A couple who offer urgent foster placements to young people who are often caught up in crime said being accepted as carers was like “winning...

The forthcoming ban on placing children in care aged under 16 in unregulated accommodation will make it ‘considerably harder’ to find bespoke placements for young...

England faces a 25,000 shortfall in foster families over the next five years, amid complaints of a lack of support for existing carers and a...

Pro Bono Economics has published a report, commissioned by the Children’s Services Funding Alliance (Action for Children, Barnardo’s, National Children’s Bureau, NSPCC and The Children’s Society)...

Social Work England has defended its impartiality and commitment to human rights, and called for further discussion about social workers’ use of social media, after...

A couple claim social services removed their foster child after their calls for an autism diagnosis were rebuffed in case it deterred potential adopters. The...