Sentences with phrase «in local authority care»

Research shows that children in kinship care benefit from increased placement stability compared to children in local authority care, and are able to maintain family relationships.

By «informal» we mean extended families that are looking after a child rather than their parents, and are not in local authority care.

Children who have been in local authority care for one day or more also attract # 1,900 of pupil premium funding.

Coram also estimates that there are several thousand children in local authority care where immigration (rather than trafficking or asylum) is the main issue.

It found that half (49.5 %) of all sibling groups in local authority care are split up and that 37 % of children in care who have at least one other sibling in care are living with none of their siblings.

are adopted and were previously in local authority care in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Changes to how the money used to support the most disadvantaged pupils in Wales will benefit those in nursery and reception and children in local authority care, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams announced today (Mon 27th March).

Statutory guidance on Junior ISAs for children and young people who have been in local authority care for 12 months or more.

For more than 25 years, special schools have moved from being in local authority care to full independent status, to permit the development of educational provision to replace institutional care.

At that time, she had never been in local authority care.

Almost half (47 %) of grandparents and other family (kinship) carers who were previously working gave up their jobs to care for children, many of whom have emotional difficulties and would be in local authority care had their relative not stepped in.

Two pieces of evidence suggest that the clusters produced are clinically meaningful and have prognostic significance: (1) a group of children with a high risk for later psychiatrie disorder (children in local authority care) are over-represented in the «pathological» clusters, and (2) the mothers of the children in these latter «clusters» have significantly higher scores than mothers of children in the remaining clusters on an index of mental health one year later.