Care leavers face a postcode lottery in support when they attempt to set up home, with local authority grants to ease the transition to independent living ranging from £750 to £2,500, an investigation by CYP Now has uncovered.
Children’s rights campaigners have called on the government to improve scrutiny of the use of restraint against children in immigration cases after major discrepancies were found in accounts of how often restraint is used when children are deported.
A large number of the newly qualified are struggling to get that crucial first job
A charity has claimed the government is not doing enough for hundreds of former carers in Cornwall.
More than 50 children have been trafficked into the UK this year for the purpose of sexual exploitation, a report by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) Centre has revealed.
The abolition of star ratings for care homes and homecare services is now being called into question, as there’s no way of knowing which services are better than others
Liverpool City Council has awarded a contract to support people from the BME community who suffer domestic violence to Amadudu.
A home care provider run by Kensington and Chelsea Council has been put into liquidation, costing taxpayers nearly £300,000.
After promising last year to end child detention in failed asylum cases – and closing the notorious Yarl’s Wood unit – the government opened a smart new centre for deportees. But isn’t this still detention?
THIRTY day centres caring for hundreds of vulnerable people are facing closure under council proposals.
