Fewer care leavers placed in bed and breakfasts
Barnardo's said the Children and Social Work Bill provides a "significant opportunity" to ensure all care leavers get suitable accommodation
The number of care leavers placed in bed and breakfast accommodation has fallen by more than a third over the past two years, research by Barnardo’s has found.
The placements were used for 525 children in 2016, [...]
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The number of Serious Case Reviews carried out into child deaths has fallen to the lowest figures in three years.
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Ofsted figures show that a total of 134 SCRs were initiated between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016 - the lowest recorded number in three years. It represents a drop [...]
Corbyn appoints shadow youth minister
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has appointed a shadow youth minister, it has been announced.
Corbyn appointed Steve Reed and Andy Slaughter to frontbench jobs as well as confirming the line-up of the whips’ office in the Commons.
Steve Reed, Labour and Co-operative MP for Croydon North, will shadow Rob Wilson the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for [...]
Gove to chair advisory board to end criminalisation of children in residential care
Michael Gove is set to advise a two-year drive to end criminalisation in residential care.
The Howard League for Penal Reform has launched a two year programme which will exploring best practice within the police service and the residential care sector in a bid to keep as many looked-after children as possible out of the criminal [...]
Government U-turn on regulation of social workers
Edward Timpson’s comments in Westminster debate suggest an ‘independent body’ will regulate social work rather than a ‘government executive agency’.
The government appears to have abandoned its plans for a ‘government executive agency’ to regulate the social work profession.
In a debate in Westminster Hall, children and families minister Edward Timpson appeared to renege on the Department [...]
