27 March 2018: The news round-up: Fostering in Muslim community a “communal obligation”; What really stops children coming into care; Education, exclusions and children in need; Carers urged to write to their MPs Barriers to Muslim fostering and adoption tackled The Penny Appeal has issued guidance intended to dispel myths that prevent Muslims coming forward as…
20 March 2018: This Week: a local authority is found to have acted unlawfully in its use of section 20 accommodation; politicians get to grips with the various examinations of the fostering sector. Council caused “lasting damage” over its abuse of Section 20 provisions Herefordshire County Council has come under fire from Justice Keehan for “two…
The Fostering Network has written to the children’s minister to express its disappointment at “a lack of vision and ambition for the future of fostering” in the recently published fostering stocktake. As we await the government’s response, This Week in Fostering looks at whether the stocktake authors have really got it so wrong. We are…
In the news round up this week: The Welsh Assembly wrestles with an absence of new foster carers; a spate of new data; delays in admitting children into new schools; and Barnet’s new charity for children in care Cardiff’s carer crisis There is no-one left in the Cardiff area willing or able to be recruited as…
The report from the government’s stocktake of fostering in England has been published, leaving many disappointed. Foster carers were left reeling last week after a government-ordered report into the English fostering system found that carers’ pay was adequate and allegations procedures fit for purpose – while also recommending that moves to grant foster carers worker…
