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 other children [...]
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 as a [...]
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 - trafficked children [...]
Ofsted: Audit of children in care needed
Ofsted has urged a proper national audit of the needs of children in care.
In research into why do children go into children’s homes, Ofsted says that in order to understand sufficiency properly, there is a need to better understand the extent of the needs of children in care, and better understand the dynamics experienced [...]
Education secretary urged to protect children from exploitation
The Secretary of State for Education has been urged by a coalition of 12 children’s charities led by Just for Kids Law to introduce guidance on exclusions and behaviour in a bid to protect vulnerable children facing school exclusion from child criminal exploitation.
The children’s charities including NSPCC, The Children’s Society, and Barnardo’s, have sent [...]
Third of children worry about finances as cost of living crisis deepens
Almost half of children from families with low incomes worry about their children’s finances, research has revealed.
Action for Children found that almost a third of children (30%) worrying about their family having enough money to live comfortably as the cost of living crisis deepens and this figure raises to 47% for children from low [...]
