Here is the final report of the Care Inquiry.
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Below are four supporting documents for the final report of the Care Inquiry.
Eight leading charities are urging the Government to rethink care and the way in which the most vulnerable children and families who encounter the care system are treated in England. The call to base decisions on need and not legal status comes following an eight-month inquiry into the best way to provide permanent homes for […]
Dez Holmes is the director of research in practice and sits on the Care Inquiry steering group.
The third and final session of the Care Inquiry will take place in London on Tuesday 8 January. This session follows two previous evidence sessions in November and December, a Parliamentary briefing and a consultation with young people with experience of care in December.
The focus should be on finding security and stability for children who can’t live with their birth parents (temporarily or permanently), rather than on legal status, a group of MPs and peers will be told today (Wednesday 12 December).
The Care Inquiry has been set up to focus on developing recommendations for proving stable and permanent homes for children currently in the care system, and to ensure the system works for children who will need it in the future.
In response to the Care Inquiry’s letter to the Prime Minister, dated 28 September 2012, the Care Inquiry has received the following response from Edward Timpson MP, dated 13 November 2012.
DORIT BRAUN has been announced as the chair of the Care Inquiry sessions, with the first formal session taking place on Wednesday 14 November.
Did you know that this year about 90,000 children and young people in England will spend time being looked after by a local authority?
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