Fostering and adoption

Children

Family court criticises council for failing to fully consider alternatives to adoption

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Children

Care not damaging to children’s education, research finds

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Children, Wales

National Adoption Service to run Wales adoption register after BAAF closure

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Children

BAAF administrator defends decision to sell charity’s functions for £40,000

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Children

One in four care leavers taking advantage of ‘Staying Put’ reforms

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Children, Workforce

‘Professionals often lack understanding of the therapeutic benefits of life stories’

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Children

‘Many unanswered questions’: Ex-BAAF staff join calls for investigation into closure

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Children, Workforce

Inspection data reports decline in quality of children’s services and homes

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Children

Former BAAF chiefs urge Charity Commission to investigate charity’s demise

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Children

The sudden death of BAAF: How it happened and what it may mean for social work

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Children

How adoption social workers can deliver first-class life story work

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Children

Eight top tips for recruiting foster carers

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Children, Workforce

Court to review whether councils fail children by favouring in-house fostering services

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Children

Social workers criticised for ‘reprehensible’ behaviour in adoption case

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Children

Special guardianship orders: are local authorities misusing them?

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Children

Government launches review of special guardianship orders

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