The Child Arrangements Programme (CAP) was designed to divert low risk disputes between separated parents away from courts and promote the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution. Despite an initial decline in the number of applicants in 2014… Read More
Children’s social services and care rates in Wales survey
Do you work in children’s social care in Wales? If so you are invited to complete a short survey on children’s social care, with the opportunity to win £250 per local authority for a charity of your choice… Read More
Allowances Report 2019-20 for Northern Ireland
All foster carers receive a weekly fostering allowance from their fostering service when they have a child in placement, which is designed to cover the cost of caring for a fostered child… Read More
Care-experienced children and young people
The report takes into account lived experiences of those who have been in care and those who support them. It also addresses financial concerns and transparency in services and… Read More
Analysis of outcomes for children and young people: Four to five years after a final care order
This document details placement journeys for children in care in Wales and how these compare with the outcomes aspired to in their Care Plan… Read More
What can social work learn from asset-based community development?
This webinar considers how social work and social care can learn from community development approaches, using an example from west Cardiff… Read More
Promoting the education of looked-after children: Statutory guidance for local authorities
Statutory guidance for local authorities to support looked-after children’s aspirations to achieve in further and higher education… Read More
Strategy for Looked After Children: Improving children’s lives
This is the strategy document which delineates the N. Ireland strategy in improving the lives of Looked After Children… Read More
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
Introduces provisions to better ensure permanence planning for looked after children… Read More
Getting it right for looked after children and young people strategy
This strategy sets out what we are doing and what we expect other corporate parents to do… Read More
