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Advice on safeguarding children returning to the UK from Syria
The Department for Education and the Home Office have produced guidance on safeguarding British children who have travelled to Syria and are now retur...
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Guidance released on care of unaccompanied migrant children
The Department for Education has published statutory guidance for local authorities and professionals who support unaccompanied migrant children and t...
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Children’s Minister launches £20 million scheme to encourage closer working between children’s services
Robert Goodwill, Minister for Children and Families, has announced that £20 million will provided in the form of a new programme to help councils wor...
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Study into safeguarding and radicalisation
The Department for Education has published the results of a study into how local authorities respond to radicalisation. A key finding is that there ar...
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Social workers feel ‘pressured’ into using section 20 arrangements
An inquiry into the use of section 20 arrangements has found that families do not often understand their rights and options when section 20 voluntary ...
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Safeguarding changes as result of Children and Social Work Act 2017
The Children and Social Work Act 2017, which is now law, has enacted changes to safeguarding procedures. The Act introduces local arrangements for saf...
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Guidance on social work and guardian collaboration
The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) and Cafcass have published a new agreement on how local authority social workers and fami...
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Number of children being adopted continues to decline
Latest government figures have shown that the number of children being adopted is continuing to fall. The ‘Adoption Leadership Board’ shows that t...
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