As they walked through arrivals at Manchester Airport, a couple seemed to be behaving oddly towards their baby. Something did not sit right with Border Force officers.

Global Fund for Children is looking for a Senior Manager to join our global Marketing and Communications Team on a short-term contract, covering the maternity leave of the current post holder. The contract period is 24th February - 11th July 2025 (20 weeks)

CoramBAAF is excited to publish the new Adoption Support Plan (ASP) England. The Adoption Support Plan and accompanying guidance for social workers, IROs and adopters has been developed by CoramBAAF building on work completed by Adoption England and feedback gained through a pilot of the form by 5 RAAs during 2024 and consultations with Adoption UK and relevant CoramBAAF forums. The form is compliant with relevant law, regulations and statutory guidance. It is designed to be used at key stages of the adoption process - during matching; when reviewing the placement prior to the adoption order being made and as a basis for future adoption assessments post order.  It should be used alongside the Adoption Placement Report (APR) England 2025 which has been amended for this purpose.  

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy launched a landmark global campaign to advocate for family-based care for all children across the globe. Lammy announced a Global Charter to work with governments around the world to progressively end the use of children’s institutions.

Public service cuts and ‘stark impact of poverty’ are causing worse outcomes for children, according to survey

In this paper, two researchers with backgrounds in ethnography describe and reflect on their experiences from a qualitative, transnational study called 'Back to the Future: Archiving in Residential Children's Homes (ARCH) in Scotland and Germany. Important goals of the study are the investigation and development of digital community archives for young people, care workers and care leavers from residential homes in order to support their memories of shared everyday life.

Lack of adequate housing, welfare reforms and families lacking access to public funds adding to pressures on children's services in England, according to an Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) survey.

This study explores risk and resilience in UK school environments for students in kinship care. Eight professionals experienced in working with students in kinship care and their schools took part in individual, semi-structured interviews. Interviews focussed on kinship students’ needs and how professionals perceive schools respond to those needs.

The author of this article is a practising GP with 25 years of experience of inner-city primary care and a global expert on primary care of children and she presents dilemmas posed in clinical settings for health practitioners and professionals working in a broad range of areas including public health, education settings and social care to help reduce health inequality faced by young people growing up in the UK care system.

This paper considers attempts to influence practice and policy from the perspectives of 15 care experienced people who had been involved in substantive public campaign work relating to children in state care and care leavers in Scotland and England. Participants shared their experiences of working to influence change and highlighted good and bad practice that they had encountered working with different individuals and organisations claiming to promote the views of those with lived experience.