Children in kinship care not having physical or health needs met
Vulnerable children living in kinship care are missing out on specialist support for long-term physical and mental health conditions, according to the charity Kinship.
Children in kinship care have often developed the physical or mental health problems after experiencing trauma or abuse previously. Unlike children in foster care, children in kinship care do not undergo [...]
Family hubs could improve outcomes and prove cost-effective
A national network of family hubs could improve outcomes for families and prove cost-effective to the taxpayer, Barnardo’s has said.
The children’s charity believes that investing in family support to assist struggling parents leads to improved outcomes for families which deliver not just improved lives for children but also cost benefits to the state.
Barnardo’s co-CEO [...]
Letter box contact system outdated and needs modernising to reflect technical advances
Letter box contact between adoptive and birth families is outdated and needs modernising, according to a report by Pause, a charity which works with women whose children have been taken into care.
The charity states that the current system is outdated, complicated and doesn’t always lead to the development of long-lasting, meaningful relationships, where it [...]
TACT urges creation of National Care Service
The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care should recommend the establishment of a new national care service to the Department for Education, a leading fostering agency has urged.
TACT is calling for the DfE establish a ground-breaking new national care service – the National Care Family – which would encompass fostering, adoption, kinship, residential, [...]
Fewer than 5,000 schools delivered sex education last academic year
Less than 5,000 schools have been delivering the new Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education curriculum, it has emerged.
There are 24,000 primary and secondary state schools in the UK, but school standards minister Robin Walker has revealed that in the 2020/21 academic year, the new programme reached 3,800 schools, and provisional data for [...]
Children’s commissioner: Children are determined to put pandemic behind them
Children and young people struggled during lockdowns, with vulnerable children being the worst affected, the children’s commissioner for England’s Big Ask survey has found.
Dame Rachel de SouzaThe Big Ask was launched by Dame Rachel de Souza after she became children’s commissioner for England and the survey gained 557,077 responses from children in England aged [...]
