Kinship care: what are the issues?
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, reflects on two recent survey reports of kinship carers’ views.
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Ofsted’s social care point-in-time surveys close on 9 June
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Yvette Stanley, Posted on:
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children looked after, children's homes, fostering, point in time survey, residential special schools
Our children's social care point-in-time surveys close on Sunday 9 of June - there's still time to give us your views!
New Ofsted research: good decisions for looked after children
Yvette Stanley, Ofsted's National Director for Social Care, discusses our new research into good decisions for looked after children.
Incident notifications: what social care providers need to tell us
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children looked after, children's homes, fostering, social care professionals
Jason Bradbury, Deputy Director for Data and Insight, discusses incident notifications from social care providers regulated by Ofsted.
Implementing the social care common inspection framework - how did we do?
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Yvette Stanley, Posted on:
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children looked after, children's homes, fostering, inspection framework
Yvette Stanley, Ofsted's National Director for Social Care, discusses the first year of our common inspection framework.
Fostering: what do the latest statistics tell us?
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Matthew Brazier, Posted on:
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children looked after, fostering, social care professionals
Matthew Brazier, Ofsted's specialist advisor for looked after children, discusses our latest fostering statistics and what they tell us about the sector.
Children need stability in all areas of their lives
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Yvette Stanley, Posted on:
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children looked after, fostering, social care professionals, social work
Yvette Stanley blogs about the findings of the Children’s Commissioner’s second Stability Index.
Permanence for children in care
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Yvette Stanley, Posted on:
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children looked after, fostering, social care professionals
Yvette Stanley marks Foster Care Fortnight.
Fostering in England - what’s the latest picture?
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Matthew Brazier, Posted on:
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children looked after, children's services, fostering, social work
Today we published our annual fostering data: ‘Fostering in England – 2016-17’. As ever, we are grateful to all the agencies and local authorities for the time they have taken to collect and share their data with us.