Coronavirus; impact on children and young people’s mental health In ‘Achieving emotional wellbeing for looked after children: a whole system approach’ [i]2015. Louise Bazalgette et al discovered children in care are four times more likely to have a mental health problem than children living with their birth families. Prior [...]
Why we must support resilience in children’s homes staff, by Margaret Davies, Trainer and Consultant at Children’s Homes Quality. Children in care need staff who can connect with them open-heartedly, yet the experience of working in the residential sector is often personally intense and challenging. Staff are [...]
The residential childcare sector is known to have insufficient capacity to meet the needs of the children coming into care. However, the available figures belie this fact suggesting that we have an excess of up to 3,000 places unoccupied at any one time. This paper by the ICHA looks [...]
