New NI Health Minister launches Life in Care survey
Newly appointed Health Minister Jim Wells has launched the third report of the ‘Our Life in Care’ survey, which captures the views of 8-18 year olds living in care. Speaking
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Tag: Looked After Children
Feedback urged from Scots care leavers and LAC
In March 2015, the Children and Young People Act (Scotland) 2014 will make the future chances for looked after young people better in several ways. Not only does this Act
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Report: Improving outcomes for looked after children: a critical analysis of kinship care
An article examined comparative outcomes for looked-after children placed in kin and non-kin care in the United Kingdom. It said that stability was achieved more commonly through kin placements, although
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Call for papers for CELCIS 2014
The Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) is inviting practitioners, academics, policy makers and others working with looked after children to submit a proposal for a
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Lack of guidance on keeping siblings in care together is ‘disturbing’
Chair of the all-party group on looked-after children David Melding hit out at admission there was no ‘specific guidance’ on issue A lack of guidance to promote the co-placement of
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Government pledge greater rights for young people in care
Hundreds of Scotland’s most vulnerable young people are to be given greater rights to continuing their care placement into early adulthood from next year, the Scottish Government has announced. From
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Northern Ireland fostering stretching services
A rise in the number of relatives applying to give foster care to vulnerable children in Northern Ireland has left official services stretched. Between 2009 and 2011 the volume of
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MSPs pressed to improve care system
Youngsters who have been in care are calling on MSPs to grant their Christmas wishes and make a number of key promises to those leaving the care system. They want
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Sexual exploitation of looked after children report published
The Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children In Scotland (CELCIS) have published a report on the sexual exploitation of looked after children in Scotland. The report, commissioned by the
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Exiling of children needs to end, says Cormac Russell
Caring for vulnerable youngsters by “exiling them to institutions” such as children’s homes needs to end, an expert has said. Rather than expecting professionals to “raise our most marginalised children”,
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