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Collective Matching: enhancing how we find adoptive matches for children
Coram Campus, 7 September 2017 A fifth of children with a plan of adoption are never placed with an adoptive family and a quarter of children waiting to be matched have been waiting more than 18 months. We all want to improve this situation so that we achieve better…
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Managing acceptable risk in children’s social care decisions
The child protection system strives to keep children with their birth family while also protecting them from significant harm. The procedure for removing children usually starts with extensive efforts to preserve and support the family. Only if these fail will the system move to a court case and decisions about…
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The Challenge of Achieving Permanence for Children in Care
This seminar brought together researchers, in conjunction with representatives from the voluntary and public sector, to explore what permanence means to them and the aligned challenges in achieving this for vulnerable children. Speakers used their knowledge and experience to give perspectives on a wide range of issues, including Special Guardianship…