What are people saying about the independent care review?
Find out how the children’s social care sector has responded to the recommendations in the independent review of children’s social care final report.
Josh MacAlister, chair of independent review of children's social careBASW
“The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) welcomes the report’s stated aims: to develop and advance the children’s social [...]
Care review: Radical reset for children's social care is now unavoidable
There will be approaching 100,000 children in care and a flawed children’s social care system will cost over £15 billion per year by this time next year unless radical reform happens urgently, the independent review of children’s social care has stated.
The system is currently increasingly skewed to crisis intervention, with outcomes for children [...]
Peer on peer sexual abuse rises
Reports of peer-on-peer sexual abuse have risen, the NSPCC has warned.
The child protection charity said calls to their helpline about young people experiencing harmful sexual behaviour had increased significantly following the Everyone’s Invited movement which enabled victims to anonymously post their experiences of sexual abuse on the website gained more than [...]
Shortage of foster carers leads to sibling separation and far away placements
Children in care are being placed with foster families away from their local communities, and sibling groups are being separated, the UK’s leading fostering charity has warned.
During Foster Care Fortnight, The Fostering Network says that a lack of foster carers is resulting in brothers and sisters being placed in separate placements while [...]
Practice needs to urgently improve around allegations in foster care, warns charity
There is an urgent need to improve practice around allegation investigations in foster care, a fostering charity has warned.
The Fostering Network says the impact of poor support and lengthy procedures causes foster families high levels of stress, many consider leaving the workforce, and children and young people who need foster care suffer [...]
One in three trafficked children go missing from care
One in three trafficked children go missing from local authority care, according to a report by the charities Every Child Protected Against Trafficking and Missing People.
Based on the analysis of data from Freedom of Information requests to local authorities, the report shows that one in three - 378 out of 1,231 - [...]
