Kinship care treated like the ‘Cinderella’ of permanence options, warns charity chief
Family Rights Group compared plight of kinship carers to government focus on adoption in impassioned debate at Community Care Live
Kinship care is treated as the “Cinderella permanence option”, the chief executive of the Family Rights Group has warned.
Cathy Ashley compared the plight of kinship carers to the government’s focus on adoption, in an impassioned debate [...]
Half of local authorities report increase in care applications
Latest Cafcass figures show 53% of local authorities recorded an increase in the number of care applications in 2014/15
More than half of local authorities are reporting greater demand for care applications, Cafcass figures have shown.
Of 152 local authorities, 80 (53%), had an increase in the number of care applications per 10,000 children in 2014/15 when [...]
Young people want IRO role removed from council control
Young people with experience of care have backed calls for independent reviewing officers to be taken out of council control.
A consultation event organised by the Who Cares? Trust found overwhelming support for the next government to enact a so-called sunset clause to the Children and Young Person’s Act 2008, which would see the role taken [...]
BAAF urges extension of adoption support to special guardians
Support services for children who have been adopted must be extended to those placed with families under special guardianship orders, a charity has said.
From today (1 May) adoptive families will be able to access specialist therapeutic services to help children settle into adoption placements through the government’s £19.3m Adoption Support Fund.
It is estimated that [...]
Violence against children fell by nearly 20% in 2014, study reveals
Lead author attributes downward trend to factors including improved child safeguarding since the Baby P case
Violence against children and adolescents fell by 18% last year, according to research by Cardiff University.
The findings were part of a wider study into the number of people of all age groups injured in serious violence in England and Wales [...]
Care applications reached all-time high in 2014/15
Figures released by Cafcass show that 11,127 care applications were received between April 2014 and March 2015, a year-on-year rise of almost 5%.
The number of care applications hit an all-time high in 2014/15, Cafcass has revealed.
Figures released by Cafcass show that 11,127 care applications were received between April 2014 and March 2015, a year-on-year rise [...]
