The Fostering Network has launched an innovative new programme aiming to raise the aspirations and achievements of children living with foster families in London. London Fostering Achievement, run in partnership
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A mother is suing a Welsh council after a judge ruled the authority had acted unlawfully by keeping a nine-year-old boy in foster care. The child was placed in care
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SCOTLAND’S social care regulator, the Care Inspectorate, has praised an Edinburgh-based fostering and adoption service. The services, provided by BAAF (Scotland), received top marks across the board at two consecutive
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Less than a third of adults think they would not be accepted as foster carers. Asked if they were to try and become foster parents in the next two years,
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New guidance about the skills and competencies expected of foster carers and short break carers has been launched by the Care Council for Wales. The Induction Framework for Foster Care
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A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the murder of a foster carer who was stabbed to death by the 13-year-old boy she was looking after. Dawn McKenzie
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Article nine of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child states that ‘Children must not be separated from their parents unless it is in the best interests of
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A new report from the Care Inspectorate found that Dumfries and Galloway Council continues to provide a very good service to foster carers and children living in foster care. Inspectors
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A Bristol social worker has been suspended for failing to carry out foster assessments. Verona Vevean Thomas has been suspended from a register for health and care professionals for failing
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12 leading charities have joined together to call on the Welsh Government to change the law so that fostered young people in Wales can stay with their foster carers until
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