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Gove finds extra £500m for social care following last-ditch calls to ease council pressures

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This includes investment in expanding family help and targeted early intervention, expanding kinship care, and boosting the number of foster carers.” ” Gove said the finalised settlement amounted to a £4.5bn increase in English authorities’ spending power, worth 7.5% in cash terms or 5.7% in real terms. ”

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Number of foster care households shrinks for second consecutive year

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This means there has been a 6% fall, to 35,005, in the number of mainstream households in England over the past two years, with the bulk of the fall (1,660 out of 2,320) being among local authority foster families. Recruitment and retention issues Ofsted’s data revealed issues with both the recruitment and retention of foster carers.

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Quality of social workers ‘higher than ever’, says ADCS president

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Crocker said some of the increased demand was due to “post-pandemic factors” but also more families “struggling financially” and a rise in referrals from other professionals following the high-profile murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson. More regulation of social work agencies needed.

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‘Crisis-led’ approach saw council close referral over boy’s unexplained injury months before murder, says review

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However, Shirley, who split up with Kyrell’s father before his birth, had disclosed that her partner was in the kitchen at the time of the incident, while other family members observed that the boy regularly flung himself from furniture. and children’s social care agreed to undertake a home visit and to share family background information.

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Safeguarding overhaul needed to better protect disabled children in care, says abuse inquiry

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. ‘Child protection failings will recur without government action’ “Earlier reports have catalogued how disabled children with a complex mix of autism and health needs can be locked away behind closed doors, often in placements far from their families, with little concern for their quality of life or futures. ”

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‘Vital but not fit for purpose’: parents’ views on supervision orders

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‘Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. Family justice overhaul bids to limit number of care proceedings. Related articles.

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Four in ten adult care providers reduced services last year due to cost pressures

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It also warned that the government’s impending ban on allowing overseas care workers to bring family members over when taking up jobs in the UK would make the recruitment situation worse for providers. “When money is made available it simply isn’t cutting through.