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- Adoption UK responds to the Government's plans to update guidelines on transracial adoption
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Date: 2 Nov 2010In response to the Government's plans to update adoption guidelines to remove barriers to transracial adoption, Adoption UK's Chief Executive, Jonathan Pearce, has issued the following statement:
- Adoption UK rated 'outstanding' by recent Ofsted report
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Date: 2 Nov 2010Adoption UK is celebrating the release of an ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted report. The rating confirms Adoption UK, the only national membership organisation run by and for adoptive parents, as a leading charity for adoptive families.
- Concerns that children going into care do not know they
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Date: 11 Nov 2010Children are unprepared to go into care according to a new survey, often not knowing that they are going in at all, or understanding what it will mean, and the details of any future plans for them.
- “Debt” owed to adoptive parents – children’s minister calls for improvements to the adoption process
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Date: 22 Nov 2010Adoptive parents are praised, whilst local authority adoption agencies are asked to work more closely with voluntary agencies to bring improvements after “disappointing” adoption figures.
- Concerns over councils’ child protection departments as demand for services rises
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Date: 26 Nov 2010At a time when the demand for child protection services is rising, Ofsted warn that a number of local authority departments are a “real cause for concern”.
- Disadvantaged families miss out on free childcare due to poor promotion of services
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Date: 30 Nov 2010Calls have been made for better promotion of free childcare services as government report reveals families are missing out.