Blog: Advocacy

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A list of some of the achievements of the Home for Good advocacy team over the years

• Advocacy
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• Fostering
• Adoption
• Supported Lodgings

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• Wales
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• General Election 2024
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• General Election 2024

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• General Election 2024

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• General Election 2024
• Fostering
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• Fostering
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• northern ireland

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Our five asks to help the next government commit to systemic improvements to children’s social care.

• Adoption
• Advocacy
• Political Advocacy
• Supported Lodgings
• Care Review

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• Supported Lodgings
• Advocacy
• Teenagers

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At Home for Good we are passionate about ensuring children and young people have a safe, secure and loving place to call home.

• Advocacy
• Supported Lodgings
• Teenagers

Blogs

This week the Government has made its long-awaited response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in England.

• Advocacy
• Care Review
• Supported Lodgings

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At Home for Good we are committed to seeing change from the top down – sparking systemic improvements to the care system plays a crucial role in our mission to find homes across the UK.

• Advocacy
• Care Review
• Self-Employed Adoption
• Supported Lodgings
• Foster carers
• northern ireland

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Lack of parental leave entitlements for self-employed adopters is discouraging further adoptions, APPG survey finds

• Advocacy
• APPG

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Today, Home for Good is publishing a new report entitled, Adoption pay: Levelling up for the self-employed.

• Advocacy

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Today, the independent Review of Children’s Social Care, chaired by former CEO of Frontline Josh MacAlister, has published its long-awaited final report.

• Care Review
• Supported Lodgings
• Advocacy
• England

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Rachael Maskell has been the MP for York Central since 2015. Rachael chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Adoption and Permanence, and has shared with us a little about her role.

• Advocacy
• Together

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Home for Good's response to the NI Care Review announcement

• northern ireland
• Care Review
• Advocacy

News

Home for Good and Safe Families release a joint report; More than Sundays

• Adoption
• Faith Communities
• Report
• Safe Families
• Advocacy

Stories

People often think advocacy is primarily about speaking, but I’ve come to recognise that effective advocacy always begins with listening.

• Advocacy
• Care System
• care-experienced adult
• Systemic change
• Together

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“We believe we can see the tide turn on racial inequality within the care system.”

• Racial disparity
• UKME
• Advocacy
• Church

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In an outdated care system unable to meet the increasing demands on it, supported lodgings can offer a financially viable and supportive environment for older teenagers to flourish and to learn key life skills.

• Supported Lodgings
• Advocacy
• Teenagers
• Caring for Teenagers

News

On Wednesday 27 October 2021 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced the Government’s Autumn Budget and Spending Review

• Spending Review
• Children in Care
• Advocacy

News

Our response to the Adoption and Children (NI) Bill

• northern ireland
• Adoption
• Advocacy

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Our desire is for children and young people not just to experience initial stability, but ongoing security, safety and love with relationships that remain consistent and ongoing in their lives.

• stability
• Systemic change
• Care System
• Advocacy

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We welcome Nadhim Zahawi MP and Will Quince MP to their new roles and look forward to working closely with them.

• Fostering
• Adoption
• Advocacy

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This month, we’re focusing on the theme of stability. Our desire is for children and young people not just to experience initial stability, but ongoing security, safety and love with relationships that remain consistent and ongoing in their lives.

• stability
• Church
• Advocacy

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Today, the APPG for Adoption and Permanence has published its latest report; Strengthening Families: Improving stability for adopted children.

• APPG
• Advocacy

News

Home for Good has been deeply saddened to watch the events in Afghanistan unfolding over the past few weeks and days.

• Advocacy

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At Home for Good we are committed to finding a home for every child who needs one – and we take a two-pronged approach to achieve this vision.

• Advocacy
• Systemic change
• vulnerable children

News

On Monday, the Government published its Adoption Strategy for England titled ‘Achieving Excellence Everywhere’, which outlines its long-term vision and proposals for improving adoption.

• Advocacy
• Adoption

News

Another step forward in transforming children’s experience of the care system

• Advocacy
• Social Care Review
• Care System

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It is well-evidenced that trauma has a deep-rooted impact on our emotional, physical, and social development, which can impede our ability to navigate the world and feel safe.

• National Refugee Week
• Teenagers
• Unaccompanied minors
• Advocacy

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Teenagers in care are 80% more likely than the national average to have two or more changes of home in a year.

• Teenagers
• Five Star
• Advocacy

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Older children in care are the fastest growing cohort of children and yet too many children who age out of the care system in England every year are doing so without a family to belong to.

• Teenagers
• Advocacy

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In response to the independent review of Children’s Social Care in England, the APPG for Adoption and Permanence launched a new inquiry called Strengthening Families.

• APPG
• Advocacy

Articles

Is the economic spend on the care system in the UK bringing about the outcomes and flourishing for children and young people that we want to see?

• Advocacy

News

The APPG for Adoption and Permanence has launched a new inquiry on Strengthening Families.

• APPG
• Advocacy

News

This week, our CEO Tarn Bright sent the following letter to Josh MacAlister, Chair of the Children’s Social Care Review in England.

• Social Care Review
• Care System
• Advocacy

News

Home for Good welcomes today’s announcement of the launch of the independent review of Children’s Social Care in England.

• Advocacy

Articles

The Secretary of State for Education confirmed Dame Rachel de Souza as the next Children’s Commissioner for England

• Advocacy

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During this hugely challenging season, Home for Good is committed to our vision to find a home for every child who needs one. We will continue to work passionately on behalf of vulnerable children across the UK.

• Advocacy

News

Too many children wait too long for their adoptive family and some children who need one, never find one at all.

• APPG
• Advocacy

News

The APPG for Adoption and Permanence was re-launched on 30 June 2020.

• APPG
• Advocacy

News

Adoption Support Fund in light of Coronavirus outbreak

• Advocacy

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What will the new care review mean for vulnerable children and young people in Scotland?

• Scotland
• Advocacy

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Our Five-Star interim report and recommendations to Government

• Five-star
• Advocacy

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What does the ‘New Decade, New Approach’ deal mean for children and the families who care for them, in Northern Ireland?

• northern ireland
• Advocacy

Articles

What to ask your parliamentary candidate this general election

• Advocacy

News

What will Brexit mean for unaccompanied asylum seeking children?

• Advocacy

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Today, the Children’s Commissioner for England published the 2019 Stability Index which contains important data and findings about the experience of stability for children and young people in the care system.

• Advocacy

News

Three weeks ago, under the Government reshuffle by Boris Johnson, the new prime minister, a new Children and Families Minister was appointed; Kemi Badenoch MP.

• Advocacy

News

Parliamentarians call for the continuation and improvement of the Adoption Support Fund beyond 2020

• APPG
• Advocacy

News

Following its hugely successful consultation survey, the APPG for Adoption and Permanence has now held two Parliamentary evidence sessions into the future of the Adoption Support Fund.

• APPG
• Advocacy

News

All-Party Parliamentary Group to explore improvements to Adoption Support Fund

• Advocacy

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We know that therapeutic support is hugely significant for so many adoptive and special guardianship families at some point in their lives.

• Adoption
• Advocacy

News

An event for gathering together key people in Northern Ireland to find a home for every child who needs one.

• Advocacy

News

The launch of a new All-Party Parliamentary Group

• Advocacy

News

Following two inquiries, the Government has now responded to all recommendations and has outlined its next steps for improving foster care in England.

• Fostering
• Advocacy

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A review of the Conservative Party Conference annual church service on 30 September 2018.

• Fostering
• Adoption
• Advocacy

News

Home for Good's response response to Northern Ireland Consultation on ‘Strategy for Looked After Children: Improving Children’s Lives

• Advocacy