Children with complex needs in children’s homes

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An adult speaking to a young child

The research referred to in this blog, ‘good decisions: children with complex needs in children's homes’, was published in January 2024. In the autumn, we will publish a research project on children with complex needs who live in children’s homes. …

Foster Care Fortnight 2023

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A woman and two men sitting with a young child, smiling and talking.

As we begin another Foster Care Fortnight, I want to again offer our rightful appreciation to the people providing incredible yet often unremarked-on foster care to tens of thousands of children every year. Fostering a child is an incredibly generous and selfless thing to do even in the best of circumstances. But in the tough …