Sentences with phrase «wider family placements»

The amendments primarily focus upon: - A duty on local authorities to explore suitable wider family placements prior to a child becoming looked after, including offering families a family group conference; - Extending the provisions to support educational attainment of previously looked after children to all children in kinship care.

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Perry represents and advises entrepreneurs, fund sponsors, family offices, and tax exempt organizations across a wide range of transactions, including corporate legal matters, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private fund formation matters and portfolio transactions, and private placements.

A wide range of information is collected in the interviews, including establishment of the placement, caregiver and household characteristics, child well - being and development, school and child care experiences, children's relationships with the caregiving family, services and support, birth family contact and neighbourhood.

Despite the 1989 Children's Act requiring local authorities to explore possible placements with the wider family, she saw the speed with which children were placed in care homes or put up for adoption.

The activities presented can be used with a wide range of presenting problems and difficulties such as family violence, divorce, grief and loss, serious illness, and placement in out - of - home care.

«We need to be confident that reforms to our child welfare system, fully explore and support the child living safely with their parents or wider family at the outset, and that the drive for speeding up decision making is not at the expense of the right placement for the child.»