Rich and Tim probe Community Care Editor, Mithran for the latest social work headlines-from foster care shortages to the future of kinship
Update: 2025-10-17
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Josh MacAlister has said he’d like children to have a choice of where and with whom they live:
Applications to register children’s homes are rocketing, such that Ofsted is having to prioritise applications, leaving others having to wait up to 18 months.
Also, spending on looked-after children ate up all of the increase in spending in children’s services in 2024-25, with such spending pressures generally attributed to significant rises in residential care costs.
Community Care Live from Jahnine Davis, on her findings from a year as the kinship ambassador.
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