The number of children in foster care rose by 3 per cent in the year to 31 March 2019. At that date there were almost 55,000 children and young people placed with foster carers. There was also an increase in fostering households – by 2 per cent to 44,450 – in that period. The figures, which had also risen by about a thousand in each of the previous two years, are included in a release by Ofsted.
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Mobile phones to be banned in schools in England under government plans
The government will seek to make phone bans in schools statutory by introducing an amendment in the House of Lords to the Children’s Wellbeing and
100 staff to transfer as another children’s charity joins Coram network
Family Lives, registered as a charity in 1999 under the name Parentline Plus, joined the Coram Group today, with its 150 volunteers also transferring to
Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests
Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilities such as writing and problem-solving Read the full article in the Guardian here.