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Care leavers – please give us your views!

Posted by: Dr Donna Brown, Head of Research, Posted on: 2 July 2021 - Categories: care experienced, care leavers
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Dr Donna Brown, Head of Research, on our care leavers survey and forthcoming research project.

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Social care - an improving picture

Posted by: Eleanor Schooling, Posted on: 14 December 2017 - Categories: children's services, inspection framework, social care professionals

At Ofsted, we have been clear about what needs to improve in local authority children’s services departments.

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Care leavers – front and centre in new inspections

Posted by: Eleanor Schooling, Posted on: 31 October 2017 - Categories: children's services, inspection framework, social care professionals

It’s National Care Leavers week (25 October – 03 November), a great campaign that quite rightly focuses the attention of professionals and politicians on this important group of young people.

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