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The words Foster Care concept and theme written in vintage wooden letterpress type on a grunge background.

Children, Social work leaders

£25m boost to foster care support and recruitment from 2026-28

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Social worker talking to, and going through paperwork with, parent/carer at a table, with son standing in background

Workforce

Supervising social workers key to foster carer retention, amid deepening shortage, research shows

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Jenny Molloy, who writes under the pseudonym Hope Daniels, signing her book 'This Isn't Love' at Community Care Live 2024.

Adults, Children

Book review: ‘This Isn’t Love’ by Hope Daniels

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Community Care, Workforce Insights

How one local authority is keeping more children in family-based care

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teenager in care

Children, Social work leaders

Care population falls for first time in 16 years but remains at historically high levels

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The words Foster Care concept and theme written in vintage wooden letterpress type on a grunge background.

Children, Social work leaders

10% drop in mainstream foster care household numbers since 2021

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care reform delay will prolong ‘crisis’ and increase costs, charities warn

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Happy grandmother hugging her grandson

Children, Social work leaders

Budget includes £44m for kinship and foster care

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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children, Social work leaders

Children staying longer in care due to inequalities in kinship carer payments, says report

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Number of children’s homes up 44% since 2020 as fostering sector shrinks

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Family taking a selfie together looking happy

Children, Social work leaders

Fostering Families: a relationship-based alternative to separating them

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Dial pointed at the word 'strategy'

Children, Social work leaders

DfE launches first national kinship strategy

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boy swinging on a swing

Children, Social work leaders

Number of foster care households shrinks for second consecutive year

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Jeremy Hunt

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Hunt’s Budget boosts tax relief for foster and shared lives carers and support for care leavers

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Happy grandmother hugging her grandson

Children

Key messages for social workers from research into kinship foster care

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Teenage girl in care

Children, Social work leaders

Councils referring more children from residential to foster care, report agencies

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