27 September 2016 TACT, THE UK’s largest fostering and adoption agency has been awarded a contract to run Peterborough Council’s fostering and adoption service under a ten-year contract, worth over £126 million approved by the city’s councillors yesterday. The agency was chosen following a competitive tendering process that involved both foster carers and children under the…
20 September 2016 FOSTER CARE pay was touched on only briefly last week, despite being central to the discussion on recruiting good quality foster carers (TWiF 13 September). It deserves a fuller examination and thanks to the BBC reporting that foster carers yesterday voted to form the first ever foster carers’ union today seems a good day to…
13 September 2016 FOLLOWING WEEKS of controversy CYP Now reported that Foster Care Associates, the UK’s largest fostering agency, announced that it would no longer offer a “Golden Hello” to entice foster carers from other services to transfer, a move that was welcomed by other agencies and commentators on Twitter. There has long been an undercurrent…
6 September 2016 THE AUTUMN term has kicked off (although in Scotland children have been back at school for a while) so we look at what’s going on in the world of education and children in care with some useful posts and info both past and present. For those new to the issues around educating…
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