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Providing good experiences for children with complex needs

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***Update: we have also released a podcast on this topic*** In January, we published a new research report on children with complex needs in children’s homes. The report was based on a national survey of local authorities and children’s home …

Children with complex needs in children’s homes

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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 – 9 to 22 May 2022

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Foster carer and child sat on sofa together.

Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, celebrates foster carers’ invaluable contribution to the lives of the children they care for. This Foster Care Fortnight, as ever, we take our collective hats off to all foster carers, for the …

Improving the role of adult mental health services in multi-agency child protection

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Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, discusses the important role of adult mental health services as part of the multi-agency approach to helping and protecting children.