More than 60 residential care establishments for youngsters are being investigated by the team working on Scotland’s national child abuse inquiry, its chairwoman has said. They are among more than
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The UK’s fostering system is under ‘unsustainable strain’ and is being held together by the goodwill and commitment of thousands of dedicated foster carers, The Fostering Network is warning today.
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The Department of Health published a statistical bulletin summarising information on care leavers in the north of Ireland who left care during the year ending 31 March 2016. Care Leavers
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A family and friends foster carer who took on three vulnerable children after their mother was unable to care for them, failed to get council support for the arrangement for
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Many inspirational figures in popular culture – from Harry Potter to Superman – were fostered, adopted or institutionalised as youngsters. Wider recognition of this could help to dispel prejudice against
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Mental health checks for children entering the care system are to be trialled in the face of calls by peers for assessments, the Government has announced. Education minister Lord Nash
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The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children being looked after in England has jumped by more than half in the space of a year. A total of 4,210 children claiming asylum
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Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to listen to 1,000 young people as part of a project to improve the lives of children in care. The First Minister met with young people
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Only three in 100 children in care in England receive the independent support they may legally be entitled to. If it is in their interests, every child in the country
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Young people with a background in care have taken part in a summer school at Cardiff University, helping to give them a taste of life as a student. Twenty participants
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