Top Stories
- A Cardiff Councillor has spoken about the challenges of housing Care Experienced people due to the number of children and young people in residential care rising – https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/housing-crisis-vulnerable-children-26695358
- A Guardian article about how the US criminalizes Black parenting – www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/14/family-policing-system-black-childcare
Here’s your news from across the UK:
- Opinion piece in the Edinburgh Evening News about Nicola Sturgeon’s promise to Care Experienced people following an Ofsted report on a children’s home – www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/report-on-edinburghs-heathervale-young-peoples-centre-gives-nicola-sturgeon-another-reason-to-keep-her-promise-to-children-in-care-susan-dalgety-4104405
- A Cardiff Councillor has spoken about the challenges of housing Care Experienced people due to the number of children and young people in residential care rising – https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/housing-crisis-vulnerable-children-26695358
- Killed Sheffield foster carer Marcia Grant gave ‘endless love’ to children Trigger warning mentions of death https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/14/killed-sheffield-foster-carer-marcia-grant-gave-endless-love-to-children
Here’s your news from the rest of the world:
- A Guardian article about how the US criminalizes Black parenting – www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/14/family-policing-system-black-childcare
- Fermanagh foster carer Jean Henry making a difference for nearly 25 years https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fermanagh-foster-carer-jean-henry-070000930.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAN7pERx-JoYcr5OgoQ-Si_AG8uY5in9n9re8U6uJ1cCH6-n90VSnB2oV8aCIJRVZlY7fXKGb0UWLTCJ5qBMS_yLICiK60vEr8XFmDJu8QhMDmbLfSosvlMmuw9lKNO_Lqt2eryD0f5tJEwpm-BBuMB8kQkwxgIE-5cEx1HgY1j7j
- Dozens of children in Hawaii’s foster system are being stripped of money they may not even know is theirs as part of a controversial practice – www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/04/14/state-does-about-face-policy-that-strips-foster-kids-benefits-says-funding-needed-fill-gap/
- A Care Experienced girl was killed while in a children’s home in Germany – www.thesun.co.uk/news/22020508/girl-stabbed-death-childrens-home-seeing-dad/
- Ohio Makes Strides in Number of Children Adopted from Foster Care – www.clevescene.com/news/ohio-makes-strides-in-number-of-children-adopted-from-foster-care-41788798
- Ofsted commends improved support for children’s social workers in haringey – www.cypnow.co.uk/news/article/ofsted-commends-improved-support-for-children-s-social-workers-in-haringey
- More Yukon children in care being placed with family members, report shows – www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/more-yukon-children-in-care-being-placed-with-family-members-report-shows-1.6808793
- Ontario ombudsman slams foster care company, child welfare agencies for failing Indigenous girl –https://globalnews.ca/news/9622115/ontario-ombudsman-report-jcs-child-welfare-agencies-failure/
- Colorado couple fosters kids for 10 years, adopts 7 – https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/foster-care-adoption-raise-the-future-day-for-wednesdays-child/
- College is now free for young Minnesotans who were in foster care as teens – https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/04/12/college-is-now-free-for-minnesotans-who-were-in-foster-care-as-teens
- Big Country Casa volunteers make a difference in the lives of children in care – https://ktxs.com/news/abilene/big-country-casa-volunteers-make-a-difference-in-the-lives-of-children-in-foster-care
- A 14 year old girl died in foster care according to mother. Trigger warning: mentions of abuse and death – https://kobi5.com/news/14-year-old-girl-died-in-foster-care-according-to-mother-206572/
