Written Evidence Feb. 06 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: CSC0061 - Children’s social care Five Rivers Child Care Written Evidence
Written Evidence Feb. 06 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: CSC0073 - Children’s social care Migration Yorkshire Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Robin Walker (Con - Worcester) We will continue to work on this issue as part of our work on social care in the Select Committee. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) out, care is needed now.Moving towards some form of financial parity with foster carers would clearly - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) There is a real issue for us back home with foster care, but today’s debate is about the kinship care - Speech Link
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: carer or main carer in a fostering couple where: o a foster child under 16 is placed with them
Written Evidence Feb. 06 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: CSC0007 - Children’s social care Amberleigh Care Written Evidence
Written Evidence Feb. 06 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: CSC0099 - Children’s social care National Union of Professional Foster Carers Written Evidence
Written Evidence Feb. 06 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: CSC0092 - Children’s social care Mrs Amanda Knowles Written Evidence
Asked by: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their response to the Barnardo’s report Double Discrimination, which looks at the differential outcomes Black children face both in and leaving care.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department recognises that children in care are more likely than their peers in the general population to have contact with the criminal justice system. The department has a joint national protocol with the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of looked-after children and care leavers and is taking action on risk factors that can lead to criminal behaviour, including through its work to improve school attendance.
Through the care leaver Ministerial Board, the department is working closely with the MoJ to improve support and outcomes of care-experienced people in the criminal justice system.
MoJ is currently updating its strategy for people with care experience in the criminal justice system, to ensure that their time in the criminal justice system is used to support them to lead crime-free lives. The strategy will include a focus on race and its role in shaping the experiences and outcomes of those with care experience and will link to wider departmental efforts to address racial disproportionality in the criminal justice system. MoJ are aiming to publish this strategy in 2024.
The department will continue to work urgently across government and with local authorities to ensure that all vulnerable children, no matter their age, race, ethnicity, or circumstances, are kept safe and receive the support they need. The department will engage with foster carer representative bodies to see how it can further support black foster carers, including considering developing a Black Foster Care Network whilst ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ sets out the department’s plans to reform the children’s social care system, including improving the education, employment, and training outcomes of children in care and care leavers.
Found: e-petition debate on allowances and tax arrangements for foster carers
Mentions:
1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) of foster carers, and the full costs of caring for a child in foster care so that they can thrive—not - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) Foster carers need to be recognised for the work they do, and children deserve better. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) to the foster care national minimum allowance. - Speech Link
4: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) care allowances and support for foster families. - Speech Link
5: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) I think we speak as one when we send our gratitude to foster carers for their hard work and determination - Speech Link