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Children’s placements: switching from lottery to logic

Children’s placements: switching from lottery to logic

  I am pleased that the debate on funding for children’s services is getting more traction at a national level,…

by Alastair Thompson - April 25, 2018
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Accountability in children’s care placements is only part of the equation

Accountability in children’s care placements is only part…

A recent media story (‘Councils not held to account for commissioning social care, claims MP’)  reported the debate in Parliament’s…

by Ebony Hughes - March 9, 2018
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Ensuring that care leavers are ‘life-ready’

Ensuring that care leavers are ‘life-ready’

The stark reality for care leavers is that the odds are stacked against them. Almost one third (31%) of 18-year…

by Zoe Appleton - February 16, 2018
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Fostering Stocktake: valuing foster carers

Fostering Stocktake: valuing foster carers

Our national fostering system has been neglected for too long. Despite being the mainstay of our statutory parenting capacity, and…

by Alastair Thompson - February 7, 2018
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Let’s change the conversation on children in care

Let’s change the conversation on children in care

As the recent Guardian article illustrates (‘Greedy Financiers profiting from the Pain of Children’), the debate about the market for…

by Alastair Thompson - January 31, 2018
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Valuing children’s care

Valuing children’s care

Four out of ten children in care today might not be there if the system was better organised. That’s one…

by Olly Swann - January 26, 2018
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Putting children’s needs first will help reform the care placement system

Putting children’s needs first will help reform the care…

Last week another of the essays from our second Shining a Light collection was published in the MJ.  The essay…

by Ebony Hughes - November 28, 2017
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SEND Transport: Driving Change

SEND Transport: Driving Change

There has been lots of media coverage of charity Contact’s recently published report “Inquiry into school transport for disabled children”….

by James Edmondson - September 22, 2017
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Reflections on the Fostering Stocktake Evidence Review

Reflections on the Fostering Stocktake Evidence Review

Here at IMPOWER, we have been digesting the findings of the evidence review undertaken as part of the national “stocktake”…

by James Edmondson - September 8, 2017
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We are failing our Looked After Children

We are failing our Looked After Children

To support the launch of our new programme Valuing Care, we have written an article setting out our thoughts around…

by James Edmondson - August 29, 2017
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Children’s placements can be nine times more costly than Eton – but what are the outcomes?

Children’s placements can be nine times more costly than…

We pay more for many of our looked after children’s placements than it costs to go to Eton – why…

by Leo Jones - May 11, 2017
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Tackling demand in children’s services

Tackling demand in children’s services

We know we must change, we can see it is possible, now to work out how. We recently co-authored an…

by Ebony Hughes - March 28, 2017
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