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Foster Care Fortnight 2023

Yvette Stanley, 15 May 2023 - children looked after, Foster Care Fortnight, fostering, looked after children, multi-agency, partnership working, social care professionals

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 context we currently live in, it is a remarkable act.

Reflecting on early help

Yvette Stanley, 10 February 2022 - Care Review, early intervention, multi-agency, partnership working

Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s National Director for Regulation and Social Care, discusses findings from a recently published report by Research in Practice, commissioned by Ofsted. The term ‘early help’ is used to describe different kinds of activities, from support for parents …

An extraordinary year: Ofsted's Annual Report

Yvette Stanley, 11 December 2020 - children looked after, children's homes, children's services, fostering, local authorities, partnership working

Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Regulation and Social Care, discusses our Annual Report for 2019/20.

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

Yvette Stanley, 20 August 2019 - adult services, children's services, early intervention, mental health, multi-agency, partnership working

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.

Growing up neglected

Yvette Stanley, 6 July 2018 - inspection framework, partnership working, social care professionals

Yvette Stanley on how signs of neglect are harder to spot in older children than in younger ones.

Joint Targeted Area Inspections: Supporting better multi-agency working?

Yvette Stanley, 2 July 2018 - children's services, inspection framework, partnership working, social care professionals, social work

Yvette Stanley blogs on the Joint Targeted Area Inspection (JTAI) programme which began over two years ago.

About Ofsted - social care regulation and inspection blog

This blog looks at the way Ofsted inspects and regulates the social care sector: local authority children's services and social care providers, such as children's homes.

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