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Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2021 to 2022.
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Adoption and children's care services provided by every local authority in England between 2012 and 2014.
How we produce statistics on looked-after children.
A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England.
A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities.
Analysis of post-16 education and labour market activities and outcomes for children that were in care.
Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2019 to 2020.
Documents for software suppliers and anyone else interested in past children looked after data returns from local authorities.
Evaluation and summary reports for the Children's social care innovation programme (CSCIP) grouped by theme.
Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2022 to 2023.
Information about the adoption and children's care services provided by every local authority in England during 2013.
A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children looked after continuously for at least 12 months.
Outcome measures at national and local authority (LA) level in England for children continuously looked after for at least 12 months.
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