Adoption Support Agencies consultation event – Friday 16 January 2015
On January 9, 2015
Ofsted are currently consulting on their proposals to inspect adoption support agencies. Here is a link to the consultation which closes on 22 January 2015.
As part of the consultation Ofsted will be holding a focus group of Adoption Support Agencies on Friday 16 January 2015 at The Grand Connaught Rooms
The Grand Connaught […]
The Alliance of Psychotherapy Trainings – Open Days
On January 9, 2015
ALLIANCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAININGS (APT)
OPEN DAYS
Sunday 15th February – 10.30 – 1.30
Sunday 8th March – 10.30 – 1.30
Saturday 11th April – 2.00 – 5.00
Thinking about training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
The Alliance of Psychotherapy Trainings is a new and […]
Disclosure of the birth name of an adopted person under new regulations
On January 2, 2015
On 31st October 2014 new regulations came into force to extend the provision of intermediary services to facilitate contact between ‘persons with a prescribed relationship’ and the birth relatives of a person adopted before 30th December 2005.
In order for a search to be made to locate birth relatives of the adopted person, the Intermediary […]
Department for Education – Adoption Reform Update: December 2014 (extra)
On December 21, 2014
Department for Education
Adoption Reform Update – December 2014 (extra)
Welcome
Welcome to our extra December issue with an important update to the ‘Myth Buster’ guide ‘Impact of Court Judgments on Adoption: What the judgments do and do not say’. In November we informed you of the publication of the […]
Department for Education – Adoption Reform Update: December 2014
On December 12, 2014
Department for Education
Adoption Reform Update – December 2014
Welcome
Welcome to our December update. We open this issue with the letters that Edward Timpson wrote to all adoptive parents and adoption team managers. We inform you of the department’s procurement exercise for specialist adoption advisors, the publication of the research […]
All children adopted from care in England and Wales, or who left care under a Special Guardianship Order or Child Arrangement / Residence Order. are eligible to attract the pupil premium. This includes children in alternative provision (such as an independent school or educated at home) where the place or provision is funded by the […]
Department for Education research report: Investigating special guardianship
On December 8, 2014
Research investigating local authorities’ responses to special guardianship and the experiences of special guardianship families.
From: Department for Education
First published: 27 November 2014
A report looking at:
the implementation of special guardianship – where an adult can take on full parental responsibility for a child up to the age of 18 […]
Adoption Support Fund Newsletter: Issue 1, December 2014
On December 8, 2014
Welcome to the first Prototype Adoption Support Fund Newsletter. The ASF Support Team will be sending out quarterly newsletter which will include topical updates, useful resources and team news to australian casino online encourage shared learning and provide regular updates. If you have any suggestions or requests for upcoming […]
On 9th December 2013 the Government put forward an amendment to the Children and Families Bill 2013 by adding a new clause which recognises descendants of adopted people and others as having a prescribed relationship under Section 98 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. The regulations came into force on 31 October 2014.
The […]
Department for Education – Adoption Reform Update: November 2014 Addendum
On November 24, 2014
Department for Education
Adoption Reform Update – November 2014 Addendum
Improving Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services
The Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce is seeking suggestions from professionals who work with children and young people, directly or indirectly, about how mental health services could be […]
