Diwali will begin on Sunday 30th October and continue for five days until Thursday 3rd of November. Many communities within the UK will celebrate this time of year with displays of lighting and fireworks brightening up the night sky, but what does this festival mean and how can you help your child celebrate their own […]
Tax Return Reminder
MONDAY 31 OCTOBER is the deadline to send your tax return on paper. If you are planning to file your tax return on paper, don’t forget that HMRC must receive this from you by midnight on 31 October 2016. If HMRC receive your paper tax return after 31 October 2016, you will receive an automatic […]
Lords Defeat Government on Plan for Exemptions from Social Care Law
Peers vote to remove controversial proposals from Children and Social Work Bill The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over controversial proposals to allow councils to request exemptions from statutory social care duties. Peers voted 245-213 in favour of amendment to delete the proposals, set out in clause 29, from the Children […]
Facebook’s Online Safety Guidance
Facebook has relaunched its safety centre and bullying prevention hub. It provides information on bullying for teens, parents and educators, including what to do if a child is bullying others. Click here to find out more. […]
Children with positive care experience outperform at school
A new national tracking tool is highlighting the care factors that boost educational progress. This new tool is being developed by the National Consortium for Examination Results (NCER), the National Association of Virtual School Heads (NAVSH) and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), to track the progress of children in care at school […]
Multi-Faith Safeguarding Hub
The NSPCC offers guidance on how to approach safeguarding from within the beliefs, teachings and cultural context of faith communities. For further information, please click here Source: NSPCC Date: 26 October 2016 […]
Children England Discuss Funding and Commissioning of Care Services in New Paper
Children England has published a discussion paper to engage thinking about the funding and commissioning of care services and placements for children in need of care and adoption, across all types and specialisms of placement. It puts forward the idea of a national ‘Care Bank’ which would fund the costs of all placements directly from […]
Children Looked After, Adoptions and Care Leavers: 2015-16 Statistics – England
The Department for Education (DfE) has published a Statistical First Release providing national and local authority level information about looked after children and young people, care leavers and adoptions in the year ending 31st March 2016. Key points include: 70,440 children were looked after at 31st March 2016, an increase of 1% on the previous […]
DfE Helping Foster Carers to Deal with Difficult Behaviour
The Department for Education (DfE) has published an evaluation of KEEP Standard, a 6-week training programme for foster and kinship carers to help them improve the way they deal with difficult behaviour. Findings suggest that carers who completed KEEP Standard, showed significant improvements in parenting and their child’s levels of emotional distress decreased. For further […]
Second Eid celebration
On Monday 12th September it’s Eid’ul Adha, which means “Festival of Sacrifice” and occurs two months after Eid’ul Fitr in which Muslims sacrifice animals for the sake of Allah. The date of Eid al-Adha varies in accordance with the Islamic lunar calendar, falling on the tenth day of Dhu al-Hijjah (the twelfth month). Eid ul […]