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Children in care face postcode lottery over family placements
Children in care face postcode lottery over family placements North East leads on promoting child placements within the family Children […]
Remember Maureen Barrett – a battling grandmother who fought for underpaid kinship carers
Maureen Barrett has died. There were no obituaries for her in the local paper – but Maureen was a special […]
Battling Grandmother Wins £30,000 Kinship Settlement with London Borough of Hackney
A London grandmother, aged 60, has forced the London Borough of Hackney to pay over £30,000 in an out of […]
A Decision to Shock Local Authorities and Adopters!
Decisions of the Court of Appeal and the High Court earlier this summer must have sent tremors through local authority […]
Adoption Activity Days – a Solution for an Adoption Crisis?
Following a recent Channel 4 documentary about adoption and in particular ‘Adoption Activity Days’, there has been a lot of […]
ITV News Interviews Nigel Priestley about Carers’ Rights
On Carers’ Rights Day (29th November) Nigel Priestley was interviewed by ITV Calendar News about the rights of family & […]
Damning Report on Family and Friends Care from Local Government Ombudsman welcomed
The Local Government Ombudsman has launched a damning report on local authorities failure to support family and friends Carers. A […]
Deprivation of Liberty Explained
In the Huddersfield Examiner recently, a disturbing case was reported where “little known Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) legislation” was used. […]
Ridley & Hall Review of the Care Leavers Charter
Many grandparent carers and family and friends carers will be caring for “looked after” children who are approaching 16 – […]
