The Institute of Public Care (IPC), Oxford Brookes University, has been appointed to conduct a review of the arrangements for commissioning fostering and residential care placements in London. The request
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An academic at the University of Chester is working with a new national charity to improve the lives of looked after children. Insights from evaluative research led by Professor Elizabeth
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Adoption has been a particularly politicised and contentious area of public policy in recent years in the UK, perhaps most particularly in England. Political and ideological perspectives on adoption drive
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A woman who suffered the “unimaginable trauma” of seeing two children die when they were babies must have an 18-month-old daughter taken from her care and placed for adoption even
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A fundraising appeal has been launched to help pay for the legal costs of a part-time fitness instructor who claims he was wrongly convicted of murdering his adopted baby daughter.
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A family court judge has refused to approve social workers’ plans to separate five children whose parents have a history of drug abuse and can no longer care for them.
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An adoption agency’s advertising claim that it used only “experienced competent assessors” has been banned following a complaint that it received an overall “inadequate” ranking from Ofsted. The Advertising Standards
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Three children are to be placed for adoption after social workers raised concern about their parents’ “open relationship”. Their father chose to see other women and their mother, who “frequented”
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The family court judge who ruled that Elsie Scully-Hicks could be adopted by a fitness instructor who murdered her should publish the reasoning behind the decision, a campaigner says. Former
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A senior family court judge says the case of a baby girl murdered two weeks after being formally adopted is as serious as any he has dealt with. Mr Justice
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