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Evaluation of the DfE funded practice leader development programme (PLDP) for aspiring practice leaders in child and family social work.
Research reports commissioned in response to an IICSA recommendation to introduce professional registration requirements for carers in children’s homes.
Exploratory report findings on how radicalisation is being addressed in children’s social care.
What children and young people have told us about their experiences of living in children’s homes or with foster carers and staying at residential special schools or boarding schools.
Statistics on approved placements by type, gender, age, ethnicity and length of stay.
Report on the implementation of new multi-agency arrangements to safeguard children by Sir Alan Wood CBE.
This publication presents information on the number of children on the child protection register at the end of each quarter
Research report considering whether the practice of placing children together in secure children’s homes for justice and welfare reasons increases the risk of child sexual abuse.
A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England.
A mixed method study to understand experiences of Dublin III Regulation among local authorities, children and young people and their families.
Study by the Chief Social Workers for Adults and the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families to improve the quality of autistic people's lives and social work practice.
Information about children's social workers employed in local authorities and agency social workers.
Analysis of the responses to the Department for Education’s (DfE) consultation on unregulated provision for children in care and care leavers.
Research into where children living in children’s homes receive their education and what the quality of this education is like.
This annual publication presents information on those who left care during the previous financial year, as well as the circumstances of those who have left care at the time of their nineteenth birthday.
Social care data to accompany the Ofsted Annual Report 2019/20.
Local authority inspection data and children’s homes inspection data, covering the period up until 31 August 2020.
Study using a survey of local authorities and national data to examine reasons for variation in the costs of providing children’s social care services.
Children’s social care statistics for Northern Ireland presents figures, collected from each of the five health and social care trusts, for children in need at 31 March and year ending 31 March.
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