More than 85% of adults would not foster a child, charity’s survey finds
More than eight in 10 adults are unlikely to become foster carers, a charity said, warning of a fostering crisis. Over 85% of UK adults surveyed on behalf of Action
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Lord Chief Justice warns of family courts crisis over volume of social services applications
Family court judges have a crisis on their hands because council social services bosses are making more applications for children to be taken from the care of parents, the most
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Children’s ‘cultural heritage’ must be considered in care placement – judge
Council social workers may not be able to find carers who are an “ethnic match” for five children taken from home in the wake of concern about their parents’ drug
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Judge approves plan which sees six children taken into care after ‘hopelessly unstable family life’
Six children have been taken from the care of a couple whose “fundamental” disagreements over parenting led to “turbulence and worse” in their home. A family court judge said the
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Placement of Christian girl with Muslim foster parents ‘not random exercise’
The mayor of Tower Hamlets Council has insisted the authority looked “very carefully at the appropriate matching” following a case where a five-year-old girl from an English-speaking Christian family was
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BASW makes press complaint over ‘false & inflammatory’ reporting on foster case
The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has issued an official complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) over what it calls ‘inaccurate, biased and inflammatory articles’ about a
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Social services defend case handling as judge says relative should care for girl
Social services bosses at a London council have defended the way they handled the case of five-year-old girl from an English speaking Christian family who was placed with mixed-race foster
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Council praises judge for publishing details of five-year-old’s foster case
Tower Hamlets Council bosses have welcomed a family court judge’s decision to publish detail of a case involving a five-year-old girl which made headlines after she was placed with foster
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Court case over girl’s fostering placement ‘needs examining for transparency’
A campaigner said judicial heads should examine a family court case in which a five-year-old girl from an English-speaking Christian family was placed with mixed-race foster parents and learn lessons.
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CSSIW introduce new inspection framework for fostering services in Wales
The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) are changing the way they inspect local authority fostering services and independent fostering agencies across Wales. CSSIW will be using a new
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