The Weekly News Roundup – 30/01/2023

Here’s your news from across the UK:

• Care Experienced person writes about their experience and some measures that could be taken to support Care Experienced people. https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/lac-children-really-achieve-175851616.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHD9y6aXq4MCYCh6GN6UJHvuYXXncdXWvj97WbMxIzLHYNeOV9wAitBaV6RBNq3QR2gonverkCqaGEpQL7bQ4I4XwW32qCdpR6GpWyr1vkKPIRK87vlXn-6XmE1kEYdFZyOzfhQNof3Z0OjPmOWdHxjorNLosuxHMD4U0tEYUzBx
• Calls to end the use of hotels as placements for asylum seeking children https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/01/27/placements-do-not-exist-for-asylum-seeking-children-in-hotels-adcs/
• SNP MP Chris Law calls government ‘foolish’ for rejecting recommendation included in Care Review https://www.channel4.com/news/government-foolish-for-rejecting-key-recommendation-in-childrens-care-review-says-snp-mp
• Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan discusses his life to now, including his time in care https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/20230127162898/barry-keoghan-oscar-nominee-difficult-upbringing-banshees-of-inisherin-personal-life/
• The Fraser of Allander Institute at Strathclyde University have written about data and keeping The Promise – https://fraserofallander.org/how-can-scotland-use-data-to-keep-the-promise/
• More councils in England are set to make care experience a protected characteristic – https://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/article/more-councils-vote-to-prevent-discrimination-against-care-leavers
• A foster carer in Cumbernauld has shared her story to encourage others to become foster carers – https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/lanarkshire-foster-carer-says-looking-26053576
• A new safeguarding report has found that Peterborough has one of the highest rates of children in care in the East of England and has a ‘dramatic’ rise in child sexual assault – https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/politics/council/hundreds-of-children-in-care-and-dramatic-rise-in-child-sexual-assault-the-safeguarding-picture-in-peterborough-3998480
• A Care Experienced person has written a guest blog for England’s Children’s Commissioner on being separated from her siblings – https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/2023/01/25/sibling-separation-in-care/
• A report from the National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum has revealed the impact of the cost of living crisis on Care Experienced people – https://www.catch-22.org.uk/news/survival-is-not-easy-nlcbf/
• Hull City Council has created a web page and shared a video on why children might enter foster care – https://www.hullccnews.co.uk/25/01/2023/why-do-children-need-foster-families/
• England’s Children’s Commissioner has urged the home secretary to provide greater protection to asylum-seeking children – https://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/article/children-s-commissioner-urges-home-secretary-to-provide-greater-protection-for-migrant-children
• Channel 4 has shared the story of a Care Experienced person through Become and highlights the calls for reform of social care – https://www.channel4.com/news/government-must-commit-to-radical-reform-of-social-care-system-says-report
• BBC Online has shared the story of a Care Experienced person who was put in unregulated accommodation and looked at the wider picture of care – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64412255
• Ofsted has written a response to regulating supported accommodation – https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ofsteds-response-to-regulating-supported-accommodation
• An investigation by Channel 5 has revealed children of parents with learning disabilities are 54 times more likely to be taken into care – https://www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/children-of-parents-with-a-learning-disability-54-times-more-likely-to-be-taken-into-care