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Social care leaders hailed in New Year Honours

Community Care

During the pandemic, despite risk to themselves, they continued to go out every day to ensure older and disabled people could live safely and well at home, acting as a lifeline for many.”

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Recent happenings

Jaeran Kim

I was fortunate to be asked to present at the Pact adoption family camp. I presented a keynote about school issues based on the article I published with Pact’s Executive Director Beth Hall for the book Transracial and Intercountry Adoption.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. Instead, “Children grow best in families.”

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Funding boost for councils not enough to address ‘disastrous’ state of social care, warn sector bodies

Community Care

More on adult social care pressures. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. CQC joins call for care staff pay boost to prevent ‘tsunami of unmet need’. Experienced care staff earn 6p an hour more than newcomers. 7m to improve support for adopted children and their families.